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CVE-2020-29482: debian debian_linux Untrusted Search Path

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2020-29482UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29482DEBIAN-CVE-2020-29482
Published 15-12-2020Last modified 04-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-29482 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.0/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-4812-1

Timeline

  1. 15-12-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. A guest may access xenstore paths via absolute paths containing a full pathname, or via a relative path, which implicitly includes /local/domain/$DOMID for their own domain id. Management tools must access paths in guests' namespaces, necessarily using absolute paths. oxenstored imposes a pathname limit that is applied solely to the relative or absolute path specified by the client. Therefore, a guest can create paths in its own namespace which are too long for management tools to access. Depending on the toolstack in use, a malicious guest administrator might cause some management tools and debugging operations to fail. For example, a guest administrator can cause "xenstore-ls -r" to fail. However, a guest administrator cannot prevent the host administrator from tearing down the domain. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

33%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.39% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian2 products
Alpine1 product
  • xen< 4.13.2-r3 | < 4.14.1-r0
Fedoraproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • xenAll versions (No fix recorded)
Xen1 product

5 vendors · 6 products

References

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