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CVE-2020-29481

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid. Unfortunately, existing gr

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid. Unfortunately, existing granted access rights are not removed when a domain is being destroyed.

This means that a new domain created with the same domid will inherit the access rights to Xenstore nodes from the previous domain(s) with the same domid. Because all Xenstore entries of a guest below /local/domain/<domid> are being deleted by Xen tools when a guest is destroyed, only Xenstore entries of other guests still running are affected. For example, a newly created guest domain might be able to read sensitive information that had belonged to a previously existing guest domain.

Both Xenstore implementations (C and Ocaml) are vulnerable.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.00066
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
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Affected Products & Versions

3
xen<= 4.14.0
debian linuxall versions

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8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve@mitre.org
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Network Adjacent Local Physical
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Low High
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None Low High
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None Required
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Unchanged Changed
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None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD15 Dec 2020 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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