MOKSHA-2026-0083

Vulnerability from moksha – Published: 2026-04-24 06:00 – Updated:
VLAI
Title
Boot Order Manipulation via VM.HVM_boot_params order
Summary
A vm-admin in XAPI-based hypervisors (XenServer, XCP-ng) can set an arbitrary boot order string in VM.HVM_boot_params:order. The value is passed verbatim to QEMU as the -boot order argument at device.ml:3957-3958. XAPI performs no validation beyond replacing empty values with the default. QEMU ignores unrecognized characters, limiting impact to forcing PXE network boot when the attacker controls DHCP/PXE infrastructure. The field has zero map_keys_roles entries.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
References
Impacted products
Credits
Jakob Wolffhechel, Moksha
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