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CVE-2013-2078

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2078 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen versions 4.0.2 through 4.0.4, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x. A local PV guest user can exploit this by sending specific bit combinations via the XSETBV instruction, leading to a hypervisor crash. With a CVSS score of 4.7, this vulnerability has a local attack vector and medium attack complexity, resulting in a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.7%
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 44th 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-2013-2078Important

kernel: xen: Hypervisor crash due to missing exception recovery on XSETBV

Jun 3, 2013
gogsllm-gogs-532eb35eb828296c

Hypervisor crash due to missing exception recovery on XSETBV

Jun 3, 2013

References

secunia.com / advisories/55082
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3006
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/06/03/3
securitytracker.com / id/1028613