Information Exposure Affecting xen package, versions [,4.10.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383717
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-10472  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.10.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

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