MOKSHA-2026-0032

Vulnerability from moksha – Published: 2026-04-24 06:00 – Updated:
VLAI
Title
Bidirectional Data Exfiltration via VM.xenstore_data Guest-to-XAPI-DB Sync
Summary
The VM.xenstore_data field in XAPI-based hypervisors (XenServer, XCP-ng) creates a bidirectional data channel between guest domains and the XAPI management database. Guest writes to vm-data/ in xenstore are read by xenopsd during periodic state synchronization and propagated into VM.xenstore_data in the XAPI database. This is the only confirmed path where a guest domain can inject data into the XAPI database without API authentication. Any API consumer reading VM.xenstore_data receives attacker-injected values.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
8.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-653 - Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
References
Impacted products
Credits
Jakob Wolffhechel, Moksha
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