HIGHCVE-2026-23555Published Modified CNA XEN
CVE-2026-23555: Xenstored DoS by unprivileged domain
Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the (illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path. Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined, an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/" will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests (including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.1
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- Xen / Xen
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HReferences