CVE-2026-23555

High

Description

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 still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.1
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedMar 23, 2026
First seenMar 23, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-617CWE-617

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xen xen4.18.0 ≤ v—

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