CVE-2018-10472

MEDIUM

Xen < 4.10.1 - Unauthorized File Read via QMP CDROM Insertion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-258.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104002
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201

Scores

CVSS v3 5.6
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
xen/xen < 4.10.1
Published Apr 27, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026