CVE-2008-4405
Xen 3.0.3 - Denial of Service via Xenstore Directory Tree Write Access
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-4405. PoCs published by Pascal Bouchareine.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a vulnerability in Xen where guest domains can write arbitrary configuration data to the Xenstore, potentially leading to information disclosure or manipulation of system behavior. The provided command writes a malicious path to the guest domain's console configuration.
Description
xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a vulnerability in Xen where guest domains can write arbitrary configuration data to the Xenstore, potentially leading to information disclosure or manipulation of system behavior. The provided command writes a malicious path to the guest domain's console configuration.