CVE-2026-102702
7.5HighPublished 13 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Impact
- High impact on availability
- Weakness
- CWE-191
Impact
A malicious guest domain can corrupt memory granted by another domain. The attacker needs access to a guest domain capable of issuing GNTTABOP_cache_flush hypercalls.
Root cause
The GNTTABOP_cache_flush handler fails to restrict invalidate-without-clean operations against read-only grant table mappings.
Affected systems
Versions not listed — check the vendor advisory.
CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Fix & remediation
Apply the patch for XSA-519 from the Xen Project. No specific interim mitigation or workaround is provided in the advisory.
AI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?
NVD description
[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] 1) XSA-437 (CVE-2023-34321) addressed issues with overflows in calculations involved in guests flushing caches through GNTTABOP_cache_flush. Unfortunately the fix there introduced a calculation which may underflow, resulting in a loop which would - at least on 64-bit Arm - take excessively long, and which would likely eventually crash the hypervisor. This is CVE-2026-102699. 2) GNTTABOP_cache_flush may be issued on memory mapped from another domain using the grant table interface. However there was no restriction to disallow the use of invalidate-without-clean against read-only grant mappings, which may corrupt the granted memory. This is CVE-2026-102702.