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CVE-2018-10472

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain...

5.6 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.36%Down 0.9 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.6

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.

Record
CVE-2018-10472
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
1.9 LowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2018-10472
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-2544 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2018-2544
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-pg2r-jv9g-9mg7 5.6

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain...

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.

Record
GHSA-pg2r-jv9g-9mg7
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2018-10472 5.6

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.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2018-10472
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.6

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.

Record
CVE-2018-10472
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2018-10472 5.6

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10472
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2018-10472 5.6

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10472
CVSS 3.0
5.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 No score

xen-4.15.1_01-1.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the xen-4.15.1_01-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1177-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1072834: Prevent unchecked MSR access error
  • bsc#1057493: Prevent DomU crashes
  • bsc#1086107: Fixed problems with backports for XSA-246 and XSA-247
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1181-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1072834: Prevent unchecked MSR access error
  • bsc#1035442: Increase the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds, allowing for more domUs to be shutdown in parallel
  • bsc#1057493: Prevent DomU crash
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1184-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues.

This feature was added:

  • Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via 'xl vcpu-set domU N'

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7540: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (bsc#1080635).
  • CVE-2018-7541: Guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1 (bsc#1080662).
  • CVE-2018-7542: x86 PVH guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC (bsc#1080634).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1087252: Update built-in defaults for xenstored in stubdom, keep default to run xenstored as daemon in dom0
  • bsc#1087251: Preserve xen-syms from xen-dbg.gz to allow processing vmcores with crash(1)
  • bsc#1072834: Prevent unchecked MSR access error
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1184-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1202-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292).
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1203-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access (bsc#1083292).
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1216-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1086039: Ensure that Dom0 does represent DomU cpu flags correctly
  • bsc#1027519: Fixed shadow mode guests
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:3230-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able 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 (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754 (bsc#1089635).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1086039: Ensure that Dom0 does represent DomU cpu flags correctly
  • bsc#1027519: Fixed shadow mode guests
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:3230-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.10
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.11
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.12
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.13
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.14
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.15
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.16
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.17
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.18
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.19
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.20
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.21
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.22
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.23
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.24
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.4
before 4.6.6-r5
4.6.6-r5
xen
Alpine:v3.5
before 4.7.3-r9
4.7.3-r9
xen
Alpine:v3.6
before 4.8.3-r1
4.8.3-r1
xen
Alpine:v3.7
before 4.9.2-r1
4.9.2-r1
xen
Alpine:v3.8
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Alpine:v3.9
before 4.10.1-r0
4.10.1-r0
xen
Debian:12
before 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
xen
Debian:13
before 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
xen
Debian:14
before 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
xen
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 8 CVEs
before 4.4.4lts3-0+deb8u1, plus listed versions
4.4.1-94.4.1-9+deb8u14.4.1-9+deb8u104.4.1-9+deb8u24.4.1-9+deb8u3
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4.4.1-9+deb8u44.4.1-9+deb8u54.4.1-9+deb8u64.4.1-9+deb8u74.4.1-9+deb8u84.4.1-9+deb8u94.4.4lts1-0+deb8u14.4.4lts2-0+deb8u1
4.4.4lts3-0+deb8u1
xen
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6, plus listed versions
4.8.1-1+deb9u14.8.1-1+deb9u24.8.1-1+deb9u34.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u14.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u44.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u4.14.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.4.4_30-22.65.1
4.4.4_30-22.65.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.4.4_30-61.26.1
4.4.4_30-61.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.4.4_30-61.26.1
4.4.4_30-61.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.4.4_30-61.26.1
4.4.4_30-61.26.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
4.9.2_04-3.29.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
4.9.2_04-3.29.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
4.9.2_04-3.29.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
4.9.2_04-3.29.1
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 6
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.46.1
4.5.5_24-22.46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.46.1
4.5.5_24-22.46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.5.5_24-22.46.1
4.5.5_24-22.46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.22.1
4.2.5_21-45.22.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.2.5_21-45.22.1
4.2.5_21-45.22.1
xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
4.7.5_02-43.30.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
4.7.5_02-43.30.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
4.7.5_02-43.30.1
xen
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
4.7.5_02-43.30.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
4.7.5_02-43.30.1
xen
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.5.1-0ubuntu14.5.1-0ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu14.6.0-1ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu4
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4.6.0-1ubuntu4.14.6.0-1ubuntu4.24.6.0-1ubuntu4.34.6.5-0ubuntu14.6.5-0ubuntu1.14.6.5-0ubuntu1.24.6.5-0ubuntu1.4
None known
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 93 CVEs
before 4.15.1_01-1.2
4.15.1_01-1.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2018-10472 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.6) in Xen, published April 27, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.36%, the 29th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.10.1-r0.

References

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