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CVE-2026-23555

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 stil
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:87846590c008b7147a2d1a6ec269d7db59b84e2939233fd7836f122747ae88e1
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Xen","vendor":"Xen","versions":[{"status":"unknown","version":"consult Xen advisory XSA-481"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.1,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/adp/1/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-617","description":"CWE-617 Reachable Assertion","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/adp/1/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

3 source assertions
{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/17/7"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"url":"http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-481.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/adp/0/references/1
{"url":"https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-481.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ef7b6b85e63d300e922ee22be4285fc69fd015df29fa9307aa247d39fbbe3776 · sha256:cc9bd49090cfa317… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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