A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined `swtpm` user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the `virFileChownFiles()` function. By p
A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined `swtpm` user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the `virFileChownFiles()` function. By planting a symbolic link within the `swtpm` state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvirt daemon into changing the ownership of an arbitrary file to the `swtpm` user. This allows for privilege escalation from the `swtpm` sandbox to root-level file ownership control.
Affected packages
- libvirt
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63622
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513065
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-63622
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63622
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