CVE-2026-23558

The adjustments made for XSA-379 as well as those subsequently becoming XSA-387 still left a race window, when a HVM or PVH guest does a grant table version change from v2 to v1 in parallel with mapping the status page(s) via XENMEM_add_to_physmap. Some of the status pages may then be freed while mappings of them would still be inserted into the guest's secondary (P2M) page tables.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.1 / Impact : 6.0

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-486.html	Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/28/13	Mailing List Mitigation Patch Third Party Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-486.html	Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-19 14:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:21

NVD link : CVE-2026-23558

Mitre link : CVE-2026-23558

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-23558

JSON object : View

Products Affected

xen

xen

CWE

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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