CVE-2018-10472

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
xen: through 4.10.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104002
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-258.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104002
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4201
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-258.html

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