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CVE-2012-6333

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6333 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen versions 3.4 through 4.2, where a local HVM guest OS administrator can exhaust physical CPU resources through specific control operations. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7 (medium severity), indicating a local attack vector with medium attack complexity, leading to a complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.7MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.2%
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 55th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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)

gogspatch availablevia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2012-6333Moderate

kernel: xen: several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs

Dec 3, 2012
gogsllm-gogs-8b863ee98f6e5108

several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs

Dec 3, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
secunia.com / advisories/51397
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51486
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51487
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80484
support.citrix.com / article/CTX135777
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/10
osvdb.org / 88129
securityfocus.com / bid/56796