CVE-2025-58146: critical vulnerability in Xen XAPI
XAPI UTF-8 string handling
Published
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.4epss 0.2%
There are multiple issues.
1. Updates to the XAPI database sanitise input strings, but try
generating the notification using the unsanitised input. This
causes the database's event thread to terminate and cease further
processing.
2. XAPI's UTF-8 encoder implements v3.0 of the Unicode spec, but XAPI
uses libraries which conform to the stricter v3.1 of the Unicode
spec. This causes some strings to be accepted as valid UTF-8 by
XAPI, but rejected by other libraries in use. Notably, such strings
can be entered into the database, after which the database can no
longer be loaded.
3. There is no input sanitisation for Map/Set updates on objects in the
XAPI database.
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
Affected products
Xen · XAPIRelated CVEs — Xen XAPI
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