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CVE-2013-1917

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1917 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen versions 3.1 through 4.x when running 64-bit hosts on Intel CPUs. The flaw stems from the hypervisor's failure to clear the NT flag after a SYSENTER instruction followed by an IRET, allowing a privileged guest user to trigger a #GP fault that crashes the hypervisor. Rated with a CVSS score of 1.9 (low severity), this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 747 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, 0.0 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gogspatch availablevia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2013-1917Important

kernel: xen: Xen PV DoS vulnerability with SYSENTER

Apr 18, 2013
gogsllm-gogs-cd1dcb0347fb889e

Xen PV DoS vulnerability with SYSENTER

Apr 18, 2013

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104537.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00049.html
secunia.com / advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2662
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/04/18/8
securitytracker.com / id/1028455