CVE-2012-5513 describes a denial-of-service or potential privilege escalation vulnerability in Xen 4.2 and earlier, affecting the XENMEM_exchange handler. A local PV guest OS administrator can exploit an improper memory address check to overwrite hypervisor memory, leading to a crash or privilege gain. With a CVSS score of 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity but has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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