CVE-2022-42320 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2022-42320

Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted...

Vulnerability Description

Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted domains Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid. When a domain is gone, there might be Xenstore nodes left with access rights containing the domid of the removed domain. This is normally no problem, as those access right entries will be corrected when such a node is written later. There is a small time window when a new domain is created, where the access rights of a past domain with the same domid as the new one will be regarded to be still valid, leading to the new domain being able to get access to a node which was meant to be accessible by the removed domain. For this to happen another domain needs to write the node before the newly created domain is being introduced to Xenstore by dom0.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • {'credit_data': {'description': {'description_data': [{'lang': 'eng', 'value': 'This issue was discovered by Jürgen Groß of SUSE.'}]}}}

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xen
Vulnerable Versions:
consult Xen advisory XSA-417

Timeline

Official Publish: November 1st, 2022
Last Modified: November 20th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.