Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2018-10472
Published: April 28, 2018 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12287
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10472
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to improper information control. An adjacent attacker can supply a specially crafted CDROM image to read arbitrary files or device nodes on the dom0 filesystem with the privileges of the quem devicemodel process.
Affected software
Xen
Fedora
xen
Fedora
xen
How to mitigate CVE-2018-10472
Install update from vendor's website.
xen - addressed in versions 4.8.3-4.fc26, 4.9.2-2.fc27, 4.10.0-9.fc28