Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5716

Title: Citrix Xen Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5716.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Dec 24, 2008
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5716: xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2) console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue exists because of erroneous set_permissions calls in the fix for CVE-2008-4405.

Impacted Vendors

X
xensource_inc 1
C
citrix 1

Reference Links

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00842.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00845.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00846.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00847.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/19/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31499 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47668 http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00842.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00845.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00846.html http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-12/msg00847.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/19/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31499 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47668
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5716 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.