CVE-2026-23555

Description

Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the (illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path. Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined, an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/" will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests (including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.

How to fix CVE-2026-23555

To remediate CVE-2026-23555, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 4.18.5-r5 or later
• —no fix listed

Is CVE-2026-23555 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 4.18.5-r5
• from 0

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-23555
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-23555