6.0
MEDIUM
CVE-2020-29486
Xen Oxenstored Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Nodes in xenstore have an ownership. In oxenstored, a owner could give a node away. However, node ownership has quota implications. Any guest can run another guest out of quota, or create an unbounded number of nodes owned by dom0, thus running xenstored out of memory A malicious guest administrator can cause a denial of service against a specific guest or against the whole host. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 15, 2020, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:21 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

4.0

Exploitability Score :

1.5
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-29486 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Xen xen
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-29486 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 10, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30 Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 12, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 16, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 25, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 17, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-352.html No Types Assigned https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-352.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-770
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 4.14.0
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 16, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

score

0.12065

percentile

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