CVE-2026-10635
Essential information
- Published
- 16/06/2026 08:16
- Modified
- 16/06/2026 20:52
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 6.3 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-416
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H—
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- Attack vector
- LOCAL
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- HIGH
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- LOW
- Integrity impact
- HIGH
- Availability impact
- HIGH
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Description
On Xtensa targets with CONFIG_USERSPACE and CONFIG_XTENSA_MMU, the page-table code (arch/xtensa/core/ptables.c) maintains a global list, xtensa_domain_list, of active memory domains using a list node embedded inside the caller-owned struct k_mem_domain. When a domain is destroyed via k_mem_domain_deinit() - arch_mem_domain_deinit(), the page tables are torn down and domain-arch.ptables is set to NULL, but the domain's node was not removed from xtensa_domain_list. The freed/deinitialized domain therefore remained linked into the global list as a dangling pointer into caller-owned storage that may then be freed or reused. Any subsequent arch_mem_map()/arch_mem_unmap() operation (widely invoked by kernel memory-mapping and demand-paging code) traverses the stale node and dereferences domain-ptables: at minimum a NULL pointer dereference causing a fatal MMU exception (denial of service), and if the k_mem_domain storage has been freed or reused, a use-after-free in which a stale/controlled ptables value is dereferenced and written through during the page-table walk (l2_page_table_map writes l1_table[...] and l2_table[...], and xtensa_mmu_compute_domain_regs writes into the domain struct and the L1 table), yielding page-table memory corruption that can undermine userspace isolation. The vulnerable path is reachable only from privileged kernel/supervisor code (k_mem_domain_deinit is not a syscall), not directly from unprivileged user threads or remotely. Affected: Zephyr v4.4.0 (the Xtensa memory-domain de-initialization feature was introduced in commit 3032b58f52d and first shipped in v4.4.0); fixed on main by adding sys_slist_find_and_remove() in arch_mem_domain_deinit(). The Xtensa MPU path is unaffected.
NVD status
- Status
- Analyzed — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| zephyrproject / zephyr | cpe:2.3:o:zephyrproject:zephyr:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |