CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-42310

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-11-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-459

Description

Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes inside a transaction resulting in an error, a malicious guest can create orphaned nodes in the Xenstore data base, as the cleanup after the error will not remove all nodes already created. When the transaction is committed after this situation, nodes without a valid parent can be made permanent in the data base.

Affected configurations

• xen xen (>= 4.9.0 < 4.13.0) • debian debian linux 11.0 • fedoraproject fedora 35 • fedoraproject fedora 36 • fedoraproject fedora 37

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness

References