CVE-2022-42330
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:04 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same impact.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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