Source: spice-vdagent X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for spice-vdagent. CVE-2026-57966[0]: | A path traversal vulnerability was found in spice-vdagent. This flaw | allows a malicious or compromised SPICE host to write arbitrary | files to any location on the guest operating system. This occurs | because the filename provided by the SPICE host during file | transfers is not properly sanitized before being used. An attacker | could exploit this to write to sensitive locations with the | privileges of the spice-vdagent process, typically the logged-in | user. This issue requires the SPICE host to be untrusted or | compromised for exploitation. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493582 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-57966 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-57966 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
