{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security@xen.org", "ID": "CVE-2022-26362", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "xen", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "?", "version_value": "consult Xen advisory XSA-401" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "Xen" } ] } }, "configuration": { "configuration_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "All versions of Xen are vulnerable.\n\nOnly x86 PV guests can trigger this vulnerability.\n\nTo exploit the vulnerability, there needs to be an undue delay at just\nthe wrong moment in _get_page_type(). The degree to which an x86 PV\nguest can practically control this race condition is unknown." } ] } } }, "credit": { "credit_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "This issue was discovered by Jann Horn of Google Project Zero." } ] } } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count. This scheme is used to maintain invariants required for Xen's safety, e.g. PV guests may not have direct writeable access to pagetables; updates need auditing by Xen. Unfortunately, the logic for acquiring a type reference has a race condition, whereby a safely TLB flush is issued too early and creates a window where the guest can re-establish the read/write mapping before writeability is prohibited." } ] }, "impact": { "impact_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Malicious x86 PV guest administrators may be able to escalate privilege\nso as to control the whole system." } ] } } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "unknown" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-401.txt", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-401.txt" }, { "refsource": "CONFIRM", "name": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-401.html", "url": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-401.html" }, { "refsource": "MLIST", "name": "[oss-security] 20220609 Xen Security Advisory 401 v2 (CVE-2022-26362) - x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/09/3" }, { "refsource": "FEDORA", "name": "FEDORA-2022-0142d562ca", "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OH65U6FTTB5MLH5A6Q3TW7KVCGOG4MYI/" }, { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167718/Xen-TLB-Flush-Bypass.html", "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167718/Xen-TLB-Flush-Bypass.html" }, { "refsource": "DEBIAN", "name": "DSA-5184", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5184" }, { "refsource": "FEDORA", "name": "FEDORA-2022-2c9f8224f8", "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RKRXZ4LHGCGMOG24ZCEJNY6R2BTS4S2Q/" }, { "refsource": "GENTOO", "name": "GLSA-202208-23", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23" } ] }, "workaround": { "workaround_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Not running x86 PV guests will avoid the vulnerability." } ] } } } }