4.7

CVE-2024-2201: CVE-2024-2201

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AliasesALPINE-CVE-2024-2201UBUNTU-CVE-2024-2201DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2201
Published 19-12-2024Last modified 09-01-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-2201 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 8.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.7, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.7/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
8.79%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 42 · Related 34
DSA-5658-1DSA-5836-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13853-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1RHSA-2024:5101RHSA-2024:5102

Timeline

  1. 19-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A cross-privilege Spectre v2 vulnerability allows attackers to bypass all deployed mitigations, including the recent Fine(IBT), and to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory on Intel systems.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

8.79%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

95%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 8.79% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu117 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 4.4.0-256.290 | < 4.15.0-226.238 | < 5.4.0-187.207 | < 5.15.0-106.116
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 4.4.0-1133.139 | < 4.4.0-1171.186 | < 4.15.0-1169.182 | < 5.4.0-1127.137 | < 5.15.0-1061.67
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • linux< 6.1.85-1 | < 6.8.9-1
  • xen< 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1 | < 4.19.1-1
Alpine1 product
  • xen< 4.16.6-r0 | < 4.17.4-r0 | < 4.18.2-r0
Opensuse1 product
  • kernel-source&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 6.8.5-1.1
Xen1 product
  • xenSee advisory "x86: Native Branch History Injection"

5 vendors · 122 products

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