Medium
Security advisory
A vulnerability was discovered in vdsm, version 4.19 through 4.30.3 and 4.30.5 through 4.30.8. The systemd_run function exposed to the vdsm system user could be abused to execute arbitrary commands as root.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3831
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was discovered in vdsm, version 4.19 through 4.30.3 and 4.30.5 through 4.30.8. The systemd_run function exposed to the vdsm system user could be abused to execute arbitrary commands as root.
osv:CVE-2019-3831
Complete source record
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