CVE-2013-2211

Severity

74%

Complexity

44%

Confidentiality

165%

The libxenlight (libxl) toolstack library in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x uses weak permissions for xenstore keys for paravirtualised and emulated serial console devices, which allows local guest administrators to modify the xenstore value via unspecified vectors.

The libxenlight (libxl) toolstack library in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x uses weak permissions for xenstore keys for paravirtualised and emulated serial console devices, which allows local guest administrators to modify the xenstore value via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.4. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 11 years ago

2013-08-28 21:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-12-12 02:59:00

Affected Software

Xen 4.2.0

4.2.0

Xen 4.2.1

4.2.1

Xen 4.2.2

4.2.2

Xen 4.1.0

4.1.0

Xen 4.1.1

4.1.1

Xen 4.1.2

4.1.2

Xen 4.1.3

4.1.3

Xen 4.1.4

4.1.4

Xen 4.1.5

4.1.5

Xen 4.0.0

4.0.0

Xen 4.0.1

4.0.1

Xen 4.0.2

4.0.2

Xen 4.0.3

4.0.3

Xen 4.0.4

4.0.4

References

SUSE-SU-2014:0446

55082

GLSA-201309-24

DSA-3006

[oss-security] 20130625 Re: Xen Security Advisory 57 - libxl allows guest write access to sensitive console related xenstore keys

[oss-security] 20130626 Xen Security Advisory 57 (CVE-2013-2211) - libxl allows guest write access to sensitive console related xenstore keys

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