CVE-2026-61477

Publication date 7 August 2026

Last updated 25 August 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An injection vulnerability was found in libvirt's virtual network driver. The network XML parser does not strip newline characters from DNS TXT record value attributes and SRV record domain/target attributes. These values are written verbatim into the dnsmasq configuration file generated by the network driver, allowing a user with permission to define virtual networks to inject arbitrary dnsmasq configuration directives such as dhcp-script, leading to arbitrary command execution as root.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libvirt	26.04 LTS resolute	Fixed 12.0.0-1ubuntu5.3
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.0.0-2ubuntu8.16
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.19
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.21+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.31+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored changes too intrusive

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libvirt	Upstream: d44836a Upstream: 289ffa7 Upstream: cb8974b Upstream: 3cfc779

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 2.3 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	2.3 · Low
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N