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CVE-2020-25652 json

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX dom…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-18316

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

Patch / fix

  • spice-vdagent Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.20.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25652

  • spice-vdagent Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2
  • spice-vdagent Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.19.0-2ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25652

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • spice-vdagent RHEL 8 0.20.0-3.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:1791

  • spice-vdagent SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +10 more 0.17.0-4.3.1
  • spice-vdagent SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 0.16.0-8.8.2
  • spice-vdagent SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 0.21.0-3.3.1
  • spice-vdagent SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 0.19.0-3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2803-1SUSE-SU-2021:2766-1SUSE-SU-2021:2614-1SUSE-SU-2020:3268-1

  • spice-vdagent openSUSE Leap 15.3 0.21.0-3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:2614-1

  • spice-vdagent AlmaLinux 8 0.20.0-3.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2021:1791

  • spice-vdagent Rocky Linux 8 0.20.0-3.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2021:1791

  • spice-vdagent CBL-Mariner 2.0 0.22.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-7364

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • spice-vdagent Arch Linux 0.21.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1303

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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-2020-25652 updated cvss 3.3

spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 spice-vdagent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 spice-vdagent
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) spice-vdagent 0.20.0-3.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1791

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Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • openwall.com https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/1 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a spice-vdagent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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