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CVE-2026-23555: Xenstored DoS by unprivileged domain

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the (illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path. Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined, an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/" will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests (including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.

Affected products

• xen: from 4.18.0

References

• https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-481.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/17/7
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-481.html

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