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GHSA-MCGC-VC2P-CF7X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-19 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-19 15:31

Details

A flaw was found in libnbd. A malicious actor could exploit this by convincing libnbd to open a specially crafted Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). This vulnerability arises because non-standard hostnames starting with '-o' are incorrectly interpreted as arguments to the Secure Shell (SSH) process, rather than as hostnames. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running libnbd.

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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CVE-2025-14946 (GCVE-0-2025-14946)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-19 13:02 – Updated: 2025-12-22 21:28

Title

Libnbd: libnbd: arbitrary code execution via ssh argument injection through a malicious uri

Summary

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Assigner

redhat

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14946	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423789	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://libguestfs.org/libnbd-release-notes-1.24.…

Impacted products

18 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	libnbd	Affected: 1.22.0 , < 1.22.5 (semver) Affected: 1.23.0 , < 1.23.9 (semver)
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4	cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4

Date Public

2025-12-16 00:00

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CVE-2025-14946 (GCVE-0-2025-14946)

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