CVE-2018-10982

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 10 May 2018, 23:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 07:54

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

10 May 2018, 23:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 07:54
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unexpectedly high interrupt number, array overrun, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain hypervisor privileges by setting up an HPET timer to deliver interrupts in IO-APIC mode, aka vHPET interrupt injection.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 21%

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0

  • xen•xen

    ≤ 4.10.1

References (7)