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CVE-2022-42309

8.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.8). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-763
Published
Modified
Record from
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