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CVE-2010-0431

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0431 describes a vulnerability in QEMU-KVM, specifically affecting Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83. The flaw stems from improper validation of guest QXL driver pointers, allowing guest OS users to trigger a denial of service (guest OS crash) or potentially escalate privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.6, this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
83CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:kvm:83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
2.7
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,296 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm-0:83-164.el5_5.21
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for RHEL-5Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor-0:5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0431Important

qemu: Insufficient guest provided pointers validation

Aug 19, 2010

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html
PatchVendor Advisory