Vulnerability Instance

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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-rk28-atvy-tug1",
    "summary": "Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.",
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