Security advisory
When libvirtd is configured by OSP director (tripleo-heat-templates) to use the TLS transport it defaults to the same certificate authority as all non-libvirtd services. As no additional authentication is configured this allows these services to connect to libvirtd (which is equivalent to root access). If a vulnerability exists in another service it could, combined with this flaw, be exploited to escalate privileges to gain control over compute nodes.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15114
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When libvirtd is configured by OSP director (tripleo-heat-templates) to use the TLS transport it defaults to the same certificate authority as all non-libvirtd services. As no additional authentication is configured this allows these services to connect to libvirtd (which is equivalent to root access). If a vulnerability exists in another service it could, combined with this flaw, be exploited to escalate privileges to gain control over compute nodes.
osv:CVE-2017-15114
Complete source record
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