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CVE-2014-5388

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5388 is an off-by-one error in QEMU's ACPI PCI hotplug interface (pci_read function in hw/acpi/pcihp.c) that affects QEMU and Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This vulnerability allows local guest users to trigger memory corruption via a crafted PCI device, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure and other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), it is a low-severity vulnerability requiring local access and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5388Low

Qemu: out of bounds memory access

Aug 19, 2014

References

git.qemu.org
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/438
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/440
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg03338.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2409-1
Third Party Advisory