CVE-2010-2238
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without...
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
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Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
CVE-2010-2238- CVSS 2.0
- 4.4 Medium
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-264
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
CVE-2010-2238- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2010-2250 No score
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
EUVD-2010-2250- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xvqx-w57v-q544 No score
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without...
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
GHSA-xvqx-w57v-q544- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV No score
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
CVE-2010-2238- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2010-2238 No score
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2238- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2010-2238 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.4) in Libvirt, published August 19, 2010. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.32%, the 24th percentile. Fixed in libvirt 0.8.3-1.