# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-42486"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-09T15:16:34.880Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-10T03:55:43.730Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-42486"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-42486.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42486"
title: "Multiple RBAC issues in XAPI"
summary: "[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]\nXAPI can configure different users with different roles, using Role\nBased Access Control.  For more details, see:\n\n  https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xencenter/current-release/rbac-overview.html#rbac-roles\n\nThe pool-admin role is fully privileged.  Notably, users with this role\ncan also SSH into the host as root.\n\nThe other administrator roles are pool-operator, vm-power-admin and\nvm-admin, each of which are authorised to configure and manage various\naspects of the system.\n\nSome settings are inadequately restricted, and can be set by a lower\nprivilege of administrator than expected.\n\n * CVE-2026-23559: A vm-admin can set VBD.other_config:backend-local and\n   turn arbitrary files in dom0 into VDIs (virtual disks) and give said\n   disks to a VM they control.  This is an arbitrary read and/or modify\n   of files in dom0.\n\n * CVE-2026-23560: A vm-admin can set VM.other-config:is_system_domain\n   and mark a VM as a system domain.  System domains are ignored and\n   left running during certain other host/pool operations, and may be\n   hidden from view in tooling.\n\n * CVE-2026-23561: A vm-admin can set VM.other_config:storage_driver_domain\n   and mark a VM as the storage domain for a particular host storage\n   connection (PBD). Shutting down the VM can cause the PBD to be\n   erroneously marked as unplugged when it is not.\n\n * CVE-2026-23562: Configuration of PCI passthrough is normally\n   restricted to the pool-admin role.  However one API was missing this\n   check, allowing a vm-admin access to unintended host hardware.\n\n * CVE-2026-42486: A vm-admin can set the VM.platform:hvm_serial\n   parameter, which should be restricted to the pool-admin role, as it\n   can allow arbitrary dom0 file write."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"all","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Xen","product":"XAPI","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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