CVE-2022-42310 — Incomplete Cleanup in XEN
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 1
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 35, 36, 37
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-gw3c-jrpr-59hg: Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes inside a transaction resulting in an error, a malicious guest can creat↗2022-11-01
OSV▶
CVE-2022-42310: Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes inside a transaction resulting in an error, a malicious guest can creat↗2022-11-01
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2022-42310: xen - Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes i...↗2022