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CVE-2010-2070

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2070 is a local denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen 3.4 and 4.0 on IA-64 architectures running Linux kernel 2.6.18, and potentially other kernel versions. An attacker can exploit this by modifying the user mask of the Processor Status Register (PSR), as demonstrated by a previous vulnerability (CVE-2006-0742). With a CVSS score of 4.9, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xensource:xen:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xensource:xen:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2070Important

/kernel/security/CVE-2006-0742 test cause kernel-xen panic on ia64

Sep 11, 2007

References

osvdb.org / 65541
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/43315
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/59373
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/06/10/2
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0610.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/40776
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
xenbits.xensource.com / xen-4.0-testing.hg