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CVE-2018-10472 json

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…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-2544

cvss
5.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10472

  • xen SLES 12 SP2-BCL, OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 +2 more 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.22.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 4.5.5_24-22.46.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_30-61.26.1
  • xen SLES 12-LTSS 4.4.4_30-22.65.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3230-1SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1SUSE-SU-2018:1184-1SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.15.1_01-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

  • xen Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.10.1-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.4 4.6.6-r5
  • xen Alpine 3.5 4.7.3-r9
  • xen Alpine 3.6 4.8.3-r1
  • xen Alpine 3.7 4.9.2-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-10472

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10472 updated cvss 6.5

xen: Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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