CVE-2026-23556 (GCVE-0-2026-23556)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-09 14:48
Modified
2026-07-09 15:37
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE
  • CWE-281 - Improper preservation of permissions
Summary
When oxenstored is tearing a domain down, the node data is cleaned up but the usage counts are leaked. When the domain ID is eventually reused, the new domain can create fewer nodes before beeing deemed to be over quota.
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Xen oxenstored Version: all
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