xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a…

Description

xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (15)

• ADV-2008-2709 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464817 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2009:016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 32064 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [xen-devel] 20080930 [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2009:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20080930 CVE Request (xen) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:0003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-3.3-testing.hg?rev/e0e17216ba70 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [xen-devel] 20080930 Re: [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 31499 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10627 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 1020955 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20081004 Re: CVE Request (xen) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:17 UTC.