CVE-2013-2211

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

xen: 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 (+8)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/26/4
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/26/4

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