CVE-2015-5313: Red Hat Libvirt

Low severity, CVSS 2.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

Affected products

• Red Hat Libvirt: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.