# CVE-2026-102704: arbitrary read/write via grant copy

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-116864, GHSA-5425-5QFW-CM7H
- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-04 · Updated: 2026-11-04

CVE-2026-102704 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 4.4 (medium) and affects Xen; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

Xen's grant copy operations can be abused to read and write arbitrary memory, because cached validation data is not always rechecked and copying by frame number is not limited to the caller's own memory. The flaws come from incorrect revalidation conditions and a misplaced access check.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Xen: version range not reported

## Description

[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] A common access pattern is a batch of Grant Copy operations acting on adjacent address ranges in the same source or destination page. For performance reasons, Xen caches details internally to reuse already validated data. The conditions on when to re-validate the internal data were not correct in some cases: - Frame numbers and grant references could wrongly be mixed up. This is CVE-2026-102703. - Copying by frame number (rather than grant reference) is permitted only when operating on the caller's own memory. The check to enforce this restriction was misplaced. This is CVE-2026-102704.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Xen, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-523.html

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