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medium 5.6

CVE-2018-10472 json

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…

published 2018-04-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2544

cvss
5.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10472

  • xen SLES 12 SP2-BCL, OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 +2 more 4.7.5_02-43.30.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.22.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 4.5.5_24-22.46.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 4.9.2_04-3.29.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_30-61.26.1
  • xen SLES 12-LTSS 4.4.4_30-22.65.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3230-1SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1SUSE-SU-2018:1184-1SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.15.1_01-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

  • xen Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.10.1-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.4 4.6.6-r5
  • xen Alpine 3.5 4.7.3-r9
  • xen Alpine 3.6 4.8.3-r1
  • xen Alpine 3.7 4.9.2-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-10472

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10472 updated cvss 6.5

xen: Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.