An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. In the Ocaml xenstored implementation, the internal representation of the tree has special cases for the root node, because this node has no parent. Unfortunately, permissions were not checked for certain operations on the root node. Unprivileged guests can get and modify permissions, list, and delete the root node. (Deleting the whole xenstore tree is a host-wide denial of service.) Achieving xenstore write access is also possible. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.
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Information
Published : 2020-12-15 18:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 05:24
NVD link : CVE-2020-29479
Mitre link : CVE-2020-29479
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-29479
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
xen
- xen
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-862
Missing Authorization