CVE-2022-42320: Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted domains Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid.
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.29% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: xen (Alpine:v3.14) 4.15.4-r0; xen (Alpine:v3.16) 4.16.3-r0; xen (Alpine:v3.18) 4.17.0-r0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to xen (Alpine:v3.14) 4.15.4-r0; xen (Alpine:v3.16) 4.16.3-r0; xen (Alpine:v3.18) 4.17.0-r0 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted domains Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid. When a domain is gone, there might be Xenstore nodes left with access rights containing the domid of the removed domain. This is normally no problem, as those access right entries will be corrected when such a node is written later. There is a small time window when a new domain is created, where the access rights of a past domain with the same domid as the new one will be regarded to be still valid, leading to the new domain being able to get access to a node which was meant to be accessible by the removed domain. For this to happen another domain needs to write the node before the newly created domain is being introduced to Xenstore by dom0.
- Published
- Nov 1, 2022
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 22th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-459
Report tools
Action score
28
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 28 / 40 · 7.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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What does it mean in your environment?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| xen | xen | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen |
| debian | debian linux | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux |
| fedoraproject | fedora | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- debian debian linux11.0
- fedoraproject fedora35
- fedoraproject fedora36
- fedoraproject fedora37
- xen xenall versions
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (XEN). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Xen xen
- consult Xen advisory XSA-417unknown
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.14 | xen | before 4.15.4-r0 | 4.15.4-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.16 | xen | before 4.16.3-r0 | 4.16.3-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.18 | xen | before 4.17.0-r0 | 4.17.0-r0 |
| Debian:11 | xen | before 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1 | 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1 |
| Debian:12 | xen | before 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 | 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 15.4 | xen | before 4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1 | 4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.2 | xen | before 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 | 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | xen | before 4.12.4_30-150100.3.80.1 | 4.12.4_30-150100.3.80.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | xen | before 4.13.4_16-150200.3.65.1 | 4.13.4_16-150200.3.65.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | xen | before 4.10.4_40-150000.3.84.1 | 4.10.4_40-150000.3.84.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | xen | before 4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1 | 4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | xen | before 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 | 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | xen | before 4.7.6_28-43.98.1 | 4.7.6_28-43.98.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | xen | before 4.9.4_34-3.114.1 | 4.9.4_34-3.114.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | xen | before 4.12.4_30-3.82.1 | 4.12.4_30-3.82.1 |
| SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 9 | xen | before 4.11.4_34-2.83.1 | 4.11.4_34-2.83.1 |
Same product
xen: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2017-10921The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x does not ensure sufficient type counts for a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, whi41Plan
- CVE-2017-10920The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x mishandles a GNTMAP_device_map and GNTMAP_host_map mapping, when followed by only a GNTMAP_host41Plan
- CVE-2017-10918Xen through 4.8.x does not validate memory allocations during certain P2M operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host 41Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2022-42318Nov 1, 2022 · Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/26Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2022-42319Nov 1, 2022 · Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quit26Monitor
- Later →CVE-2022-42321Nov 1, 2022 · Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack Xenstored is using recursion for some Xenstore operations (e.g.26Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| alpine:xen | 4.15.4-r0 · Alpine:v3.14 | Package registry (OSV) |
| debian:xen | 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:xen | 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 · openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| suse:xen | 4.10.4_40-150000.3.84.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | Package registry (OSV) |
| suse:xen | 4.14.5_08-150300.3.40.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-459 · Incomplete CleanupCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-417.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272
- xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-417.txt
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.