🛡️ CVE-2020-23793 on Debian — spice

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in spice-server spice-server-0.14.0-6.el7_6.1.x86_64 of Redhat's VDI product. There is a security vulnerablility that can restart KVMvirtual machine without any authorization. It is not yet known if there will be other other effects.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2020-23793 as tracked by Debian, for the package spice. The fix is available in version 0.13.90-0.1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-23793 is recorded against 1 package.

spice (fixed in 0.13.90-0.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 August 2023 and last revised on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2020-23793 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

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

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2023-08-22

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-08-05

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
spice	—	0.13.90-0.1

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-23793

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