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CVE-2013-4553

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4553 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Xen versions 3.4.x through 4.3.x, where the XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall can lead to a host deadlock due to inconsistent locking order. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.2, indicating a medium severity, and requires authenticated access by a local guest administrator to exploit. While the attack complexity is medium, successful exploitation results in a complete loss of availability for the host system. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion 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

5.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
4.4
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 74 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 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4553Moderate

kernel: xen: lock order reversal between page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock

Nov 26, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3006
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/11/26/8