CVE-2013-1918: xen
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2013-1918 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 4.7, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1Timeline
- 13-05-2013PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and earlier are not preemptible, which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to "deep page table traversal."
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.36%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
30%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.36% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- xen< 4.1.4-4
Xen1 product
- xen4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2
2 vendors · 2 products
References
9 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105533.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA