CVE-2020-29481

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedDec 15, 2020
First seenDec 15, 2020

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xen xenv ≤ 4.14.0—
debian debian_linux10.0—
fedoraproject fedora32, 33—

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