CVE-2020-29486

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x

published December 15, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Nodes in xenstore have an ownership. In oxenstored, a owner could give a node away. However, node ownership has quota implications. Any guest can run another guest out of quota, or create an unbounded number of nodes owned by dom0, thus running xenstored out of memory A malicious guest administrator can cause a denial of service against a specific guest or against the whole host. 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00411 · 34.3th percentile
Published
2020-12-15T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 DEC 18:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x
    cvelistv5