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CVE-2014-2986

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2986 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen 4.4.x on ARM systems. A local guest user can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the vgic_distr_mmio_write function, leading to a host crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a medium severity with an adjacent network attack vector and low complexity, resulting in a complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
5.1
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 314 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, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2986

CVE-2014-2986

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/5
securityfocus.com / bid/67047
securitytracker.com / id/1030146
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-94.html
PatchVendor Advisory