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CVE-2007-6416

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6416 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the PAL emulation functionality of Xen 3.1.2 and earlier, specifically on ia64 systems. It allows HVM guest users to access arbitrary physical memory by triggering specific mapping operations. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this local attack requires low complexity and no authentication, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xen:xen:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6416Important

Security: vulnerability of copy_to_user in PAL emulation

Dec 14, 2007

References

osvdb.org / 41344
secunia.com / advisories/28146
secunia.com / advisories/28643
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9840
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html
securityfocus.com / bid/26954
xenbits.xensource.com / ext/ia64/xen-unstable.hg
Exploit