CVE-2024-31142

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Analyzed
Published: 16 May 2024, 13:39
Last modified:04 Nov 2025, 18:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
3.12% LOW
3% probability -0.47%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 May 2024, 13:39
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Nov 2025, 18:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Because of a logical error in XSA-407 (Branch Type Confusion), the mitigation is not applied properly when it is intended to be used. XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) uses the same infrastructure, so is equally impacted. For more details, see: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-407.html https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 3.12%• Percentile: 87%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-693•Protection Mechanism Failure

    The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    38 | 40

  • xen•xen

    < 4.15.6 | ≥ 4.16.0, < 4.16.6 | ≥ 4.17.0, < 4.17.4 | ≥ 4.18.0, < 4.18.2

References (4)