Improper Privilege Management Affecting xen-tools package, versions <4.10.4_24-3.53.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-XENTOOLS-2692824
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed22 Dec 2020

Introduced: 22 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29481  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 xen-tools to version 4.10.4_24-3.53.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen-tools package and not the xen-tools package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1