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CVE-2015-8338

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8338 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen 4.6.x and earlier on ARM architectures. It stems from improper enforcement of page order limits in memory operations, allowing guest OS administrators to trigger CPU consumption, guest reboots, or host reboots. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is considered high severity due to its local attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 3,241 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 0.5 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 Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8338Important

xen: Long running memory operations on ARM cause DoS

Dec 8, 2015

References

debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3633
securityfocus.com / bid/78920
securitytracker.com / id/1034390
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-158.html
Vendor Advisory