CVE-2010-3851: Libguestfs

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libguestfs before 1.5.23, as used in virt-v2v, virt-inspector 1.5.3 and earlier, and possibly other products, when a raw-format disk image is used, allows local guest OS administrators to read files from the host via a crafted (1) qcow2, (2) VMDK, or (3) VDI header, related to lack of support for a disk format specifier.

Affected products

• Libguestfs Libguestfs: up to and including 1.5.22; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only; …

Published 2010-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.