CVE-2020-25650

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 25, 2020 at 02:35 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:07 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraSpice Vdagent

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770

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