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CVE-2010-0730

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0730 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor's MMIO instruction decoder within the Linux kernel 2.6.18, specifically affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A guest OS user can trigger a 32-bit guest OS crash through unspecified instruction emulation. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and partial availability impact. 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
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:client:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:ga:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:ga:client:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0244 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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-0:2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0730Moderate

xen: emulator instruction decoding inconsistency

May 6, 2010

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/39649
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/43315
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11430
support.avaya.com / css/P8/documents/100088287
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/05/07/1
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0398.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/39979
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html