CVE-2026-23555

HIGH

Xenstored DoS by unprivileged domain

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the (illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path. Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined, an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/" will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests (including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 4.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (2)
xen/xen 4.18.0
Xen/Xen consult Xen advisory XSA-481
Published Mar 23, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 23, 2026