CVE catalog
CVE-2020-25652
spice-vdagent: CVE-2020-25652
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.44% · Oct 25, 2026
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | spice-vdagent | sid | 0.23.0-4 | fixed |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | forky | 0.23.0-4 | fixed |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | trixie | 0.22.1-4.1 | fixed |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | bookworm | 0.22.1-3 | fixed |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | bookworm-security | 0.22.1-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 16.04 | 0.15.0-1.3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 18.04 | 0.17.0-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 18.04 | 0.17.0-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 18.04 | 0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 20.04 | 0.19.0-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | 20.04 | 0.19.0-2ubuntu0.2 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | spice-vdagent | source | sid | 0.20.0-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [973769] |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | source | forky | 0.20.0-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [973769] |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | source | trixie | 0.20.0-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [973769] |
| Debian | spice-vdagent | source | bookworm | 0.20.0-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [973769] |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | deb | 18.04 | 0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25652 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | spice-vdagent | deb | 20.04 | 0.19.0-2ubuntu0.2 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25652 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [spice-vdagent]Fixed
Details (4)
0.22.1-3+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · bookworm; dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 12
0.22.1-3+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · bookworm; dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 12
0.22.1-3+deb12u1· amd64 · bookworm-securityFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · bookworm; dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 12
0.22.1-3+deb12u1· arm64 · bookworm-securityFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · bookworm; dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [spice-vdagent]Fixed
Details (2)
0.22.1-4.1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 13
0.22.1-4.1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
0.20.0-2dsa · spice-vdagent · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1791]
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2021_1791.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25652]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25652]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25652]
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