CVE-2008-4405
xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as an issue in libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Xen 3.3 - XenStore Domain Configuration Data Unsafe Storage (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32446local, linuxpublished 30 Sept 2008Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- ADV-2008-2709 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464817 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 32064 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [xen-devel] 20080930 [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080930 CVE Request (xen) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-3.3-testing.hg?rev/e0e17216ba70 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [xen-devel] 20080930 Re: [PATCH] [Xend] Move some backend configuration (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 31499 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10627 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1020955 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081004 Re: CVE Request (xen) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4386 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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