CVE-2010-3699: citrix xen Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-3699 is a low (CVSS 2.7) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in citrix xen. EPSS estimates a 0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 2.7, adjacent network); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2Timeline
- 08-12-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak, which prevents the device and guest OS from being shut down or create a zombie domain, causes a hang in zenwatch, or prevents unspecified xm commands from working properly, related to (1) netback, (2) blkback, or (3) blktap.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.71%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
54%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.71% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: adjacent network, authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Citrix1 product
- xen3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.2.0 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.3.0 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3
1 vendor · 1 product
References
13 links- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM