CVE-2020-25652
spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · November 3, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock. This flaw allows any unprivileged local guest user to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling