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CVE-2015-5201 json

VDSM and libvirt in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H) 7-7.x before 7-7.2-20151119.0 and 6-6.x before 6-6.7-20151117…

published 2020-02-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5202

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

VDSM and libvirt in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H) 7-7.x before 7-7.2-20151119.0 and 6-6.x before 6-6.7-20151117.0 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization before 3.5.6 when VSDM is run with -spice disable-ticketing and a VM is suspended and then restored, allows remote attackers to log in without authentication via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • redhat enterprise_virtualization 3.5.6
  • redhat enterprise_virtualization_hypervisor 6-6.7-20151117.0, 7-7.2-20151119.0
  • rhev-hypervisor6 RHEL 6 6.7-20151123.0.el6ev
  • rhev-hypervisor7 RHEL 6 7.2-20151129.1.el6ev
  • rhev-hypervisor7 RHEL 7 7.2-20151129.1.el7ev

red hat advisories RHEA-2015:2527

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-2015-5201 updated cvss 5.0

RHEV: vdsm spice disable-ticketing and VM suspend and restore allows auth bypass

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 vdsm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Storage 2 vdsm
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 vdsm, vdsm-api, vdsm-cli, vdsm-reg, vdsm-http, vdsm-infra, +20 more
    under investigation
  • Red Hat RHEL 7-based RHEV-H rhev-hypervisor7 7.2-20151129.1.el7ev Red Hat RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 rhev-hypervisor6 6.7-20151123.0.el6ev, rhev-hypervisor7 7.2-20151129.1.el6ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHEA-2015:2527

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

1.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality

References

Sources

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