Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

libvirt: swtpm privilege escalation via symlink following

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

CVE-2026-14361

CVE-2026-14361 Consul Template's writeToFile helper opened an operator-supplied destination directly and followed linked path components, allowing rendered output to escape the intended directory and overwrite a preexisting file. Intro I found this issue while reviewing HashiCorp Consul Template ...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

libvirt: swtpm privilege escalation via symlink following

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

libvirt: swtpm privilege escalation via symlink following

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

subpath-exploit

Sample Kubernetes Escape via CVE-2017-1002101 Description After hearing about the issue and following this guide, I wanted to explore things a bit more. This repo contains a couple pod deployments and helper shell scripts that demonstrate the attack mechanism in the simplest way possible so that...

CVE-2026-D0cker

CVE-2026-Pending: Container Escape via runC maskPaths Vunlerability Severity: Critical CVSS 9.8 Component: opencontainers/runc libcontainer Vulnerability Type: CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access 'Link Following' 🚨 Executive Summary A critical vulnerability exists in runc's...

libvirt: swtpm privilege escalation via symlink following

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined swtpm user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the virFileChownFiles function. By planting a symbolic link within the swtpm state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvir...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fo...

RHEL 9 : libvirt (RHSA-2026:65515)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:65515 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In...

RHEL 9 : libvirt (RHSA-2026:65516)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:65516 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In...

Security update for libvirt

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: CVE-2026-18917: Integer overflow in NodeGetFreePages RPC handler leading to heap buffer overflow bsc1275863. CVE-2026-61477: newline injection in network XML DNS TXT/SRV fields allows dnsmasq config directive injection bsc1274576. CVE-2026-63622...

Security update for libvirt

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: CVE-2026-18917: Integer overflow in NodeGetFreePages RPC handler leading to heap buffer overflow bsc1275863. CVE-2026-61477: newline injection in network XML DNS TXT/SRV fields allows dnsmasq config directive injection bsc1274576. CVE-2026-63622...

cve-2026-11837-ansible-posix-authorized-key

CVE-2026-11837: escalada de privilegios local en authorizedkey de ansible.posix Escalada de privilegios local en el módulo Ansible ansible.posix.authorizedkey mediante chown que sigue enlaces simbólicos y creación de archivos que sigue enlaces simbólicos en el directorio /.ssh del usuario y el...

CVE-2025-27591-Meta-below-LPE

CVE-2025-27591 — Meta below Symlink Local Privilege Escalation Overview Field| Details ---|--- CVE| CVE-2025-27591 Software| Meta below system resource monitor Affected Versions| 0.9.0 Vulnerability| Symlink following → arbitrary file overwrite as root Authentication| Local user with sudo access ...

CVE-2024-50404

CVE-2024-50404 https://www.qnap.com/en/security-advisory/qsa-24-48 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=2024-50404 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N 6.8 "A link following vulnerability has been reported to affect Qsync Central. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow...

CVE-2026-53802

A flaw was found in rsync. A local attacker with low privileges can exploit a symlink following vulnerability in the handling of input configuration files, such as those specified by --files-from or --password-file. This allows the attacker to read arbitrary files accessible to the rsync daemon...

CVE-2026-85583

SiYuan versions before v3.8.2 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the reader-accessible file-read endpoint that follows symlinks when opening authorized asset paths. Attackers with reader role can request a logical asset under data/assets/ that is a symlink to a file outside the workspace a...