THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-63622 (HIGH 7.8) — 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 tr
[NVD] CVE-2026-63622 (HIGH 7.8) — 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 tr
CVE-2026-63622 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-10T21:17:23.550
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 ow
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63622