VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-0011

medium
Published 2012-06-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

qemu-kvm before 0.11.0 disables VNC authentication when the password is cleared, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish VNC sessions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"0.11.0"}
qemuqemu0.1.0
qemuqemu0.1.1
qemuqemu0.1.2
qemuqemu0.1.3
qemuqemu0.1.4
qemuqemu0.1.5
qemuqemu0.1.6
qemuqemu0.10.0
qemuqemu0.10.1
qemuqemu0.10.2
qemuqemu0.10.3
qemuqemu0.10.4
qemuqemu0.10.5
qemuqemu0.10.6
qemuqemu0.11.0

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.