CVE-2013-1922: Xen

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

qemu-nbd in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.2.x, determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest OS administrators to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2004.

Affected products

• Xen Xen: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only

Published 2013-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.