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TI-2013-03707 Aliases CVE-2013-4236GHSA-jhj6-xfqh-j93v

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to…

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Key facts

Attack vector
Adjacent network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Partial
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00557 46th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.0VulnerableRed Hat
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.2VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.2 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2013:1181 Released 2013-08-27 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update
    • RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 rhev-hypervisor6-6.4-20130815.0.el6_4
  • RHSA-2013:1155 Released 2013-08-13 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    rhev 3.2.2 - vdsm security and bug fix update
    • RHEV Agents (vdsm) vdsm-4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-cli-4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-hook-vhostmd-4.10.2-24.0.el6ev +3
    • RHEV-M 3.2 vdsm-4.10.2-24.0.el6ev, vdsm-bootstrap-4.10.2-24.0.el6ev

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
RHEV Agents (vdsm)Fixed RHSA-2013:1155
RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6Fixed RHSA-2013:1181
RHEV-M 3.2Fixed RHSA-2013:1155

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2013-4236
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jhj6-xfqh-j93v

References

Advisory 1

Other 2

  • TI-2018-01029 Command injection in Red Hat dhcp CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-03047 The Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier and KVM… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2008-03372 Buffer overflow in the jas_stream_printf function in libjasper/base/jas_stream.c in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
  • TI-2013-01398 Stack-based buffer overflow in libpixman, as used in Pale Moon before 15.4 and possibly… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-01035 Sensitive information in log files in [UNKNOWN] ovirt-ansible-roles CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-00994 Information disclosure in ovirt-engine CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.7
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