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low 2.7

CVE-2013-4236 json

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment…

published 2013-08-19 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-4140

cvss
2.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.

Patch / fix

  • rhev-hypervisor6 RHEL 6 6.4-20130815.0.el6_4
  • vdsm rhev manager 3, RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-cli RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-reg RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-python RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-xmlrpc RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-bootstrap rhev manager 3 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
  • vdsm-hook-vhostmd RHEL 6 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1181RHSA-2013:1155

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4236 updated cvss 2.7

vdsm: incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167 issue

  • Red Hat RHEV Agents (vdsm) vdsm 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-cli 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-reg 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-python 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-xmlrpc 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-hook-vhostmd 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1155
  • Red Hat RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 rhev-hypervisor6 6.4-20130815.0.el6_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1181
  • Red Hat RHEV-M 3.2 vdsm 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-bootstrap 4.10.2-24.0.el6ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1155

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.7 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.