x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count. This scheme is used to maintain invariants required for Xen's safety, e.g. PV guests may not have direct writeable access to pagetables; updates need auditing by Xen. Unfortunately, the logic for acquiring a type reference has a race condition, whereby a safely TLB flush is issued too early and creates a window where the guest can re-establish the read/write mapping before writeability is prohibited.
CVE-2022-26362
Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-06-10. NVD baseline CVSS 6.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.4
- EG Score
- 6.4(medium)
- EG Risk
- 33(Track)EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity64% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 31%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 9, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (16)
- security@xenhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167718/Xen-TLB-Flush-Bypass.html
- security@xenhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/09/3
- security@xenhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-401.html
- security@xenhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OH65U6FTTB5MLH5A6Q3TW7KVCGOG4MYI/
- security@xenhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RKRXZ4LHGCGMOG24ZCEJNY6R2BTS4S2Q/
- security@xenhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
- security@xenhttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5184
- security@xenhttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-401.txt
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167718/Xen-TLB-Flush-Bypass.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/09/3
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-401.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OH65U6FTTB5MLH5A6Q3TW7KVCGOG4MYI/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RKRXZ4LHGCGMOG24ZCEJNY6R2BTS4S2Q/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5184
Affected Packages
(16 across 16 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.14.5-r1 | — |
Alpine:v3.14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.15.2-r1 | — |
Alpine:v3.15(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.15.2-r1 | — |
Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r1 | — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.1-r2 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2 ... 4.14.4+74-gd7b22226b5-1 (6 versions) | 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.2-1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.2-1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — | 4.16.2-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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