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A file permission vulnerability was found in libvirt's storage volume clone/convert path in src/storage/storage_util.c. The virStorageBackendCreateExecCommand() function ran qemu-img with umask 0 on non-NETFS local storage paths, causing newly created volume images to be world-readable (mode 0644) during the copy operation. libvirt only tightened the file permissions via chmod() after qemu-img completed, creating a window where the full guest disk contents could be read by any local user.

This is the same class of issue as CVE-2025-13193. A local attacker could exploit this race window to read sensitive guest disk contents, resulting in information disclosure.

The fix moves the virCommandSetUmask() call to apply unconditionally to all code paths, ensuring qemu-img creates files with restrictive permissions from the outset.

Upstream fix: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/69335a484768d550854da1133d5490074695e825