CVE-2022-42330

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

1%p70

Published

Jan 26, 2023 (Jan 26, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same impact.

Vendors: xen
Products: xen
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.4%)

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