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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63622

Published Aug 10, 2026

CVSS

7.8

HIGH

EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System — the modeled probability of in-the-wild exploitation in the next 30 days.

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Summary

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.

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