VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2693

low
Published 2012-06-17 · 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
3.7

Description

libvirt, possibly before 0.9.12, does not properly assign USB devices to virtual machines when multiple devices have the same vendor and product ID, which might cause the wrong device to be associated with a guest and might allow local users to access unintended USB devices.

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.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.9.12-1
sid Fixed 0.9.12-1
forky Fixed 0.9.12-1
bullseye Fixed 0.9.12-1
bookworm Fixed 0.9.12-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt{"endIncluding":"0.9.11"}
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.0.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.1.9
redhat redhatlibvirt0.2.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.2.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.2.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.2.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.3.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.3.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.3.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.3.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.4.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.5.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.5.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.6.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.7.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.8.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.0
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.1
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.2
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.3
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.4
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.5
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.6
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.7
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.8
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.9
redhat redhatlibvirt0.9.10

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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