CVE-2011-1773: Matthew Booth Virt-v2v

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

virt-v2v before 0.8.4 does not preserve the VNC console password when converting a guest, which allows local users to bypass the intended VNC authentication by connecting without a password.

Affected products

• Matthew Booth Virt-v2v: up to and including 0.8.3; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.3.2 only; version 0.4.0 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only

Published 2014-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.