Medium severity · published Apr 27, 2018
CVE-2018-10472
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…
5.6
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
XE
Xen · Xen
through 4.10.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10472
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10472
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104002
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
Mitigation
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-258.html
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