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CVE-2012-0218

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0218 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen versions 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1. Specifically, it allows a local, unprivileged guest OS user to crash the guest by exploiting improper flag clearing during exception injection. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.9, indicating a local attack vector with medium attack complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0218Moderate

kernel: xen: guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation

Jun 12, 2012

References

lists.xen.org / archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00003.html
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2501