CVE-2013-2211: Xen

High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The libxenlight (libxl) toolstack library in Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x uses weak permissions for xenstore keys for paravirtualised and emulated serial console devices, which allows local guest administrators to modify the xenstore value via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Xen Xen: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; …

Published 2013-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.