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.
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Published : 2020-12-15 18:15
Updated : 2023-11-07 03:21
NVD link : CVE-2020-29481
Mitre link : CVE-2020-29481
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-29481
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Products Affected
xen
- xen
fedoraproject
- fedora
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management