Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-10025

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10025 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen 4.6.x through 4.8.x on x86 systems utilizing AMD virtualization extensions (SVM). A missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation allows local HVM guest OS users to crash the hypervisor. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges, leading to 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
4.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 15,938 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

citrixpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10025Moderate

xen: x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation (XSA-203)

Dec 21, 2016

References

support.citrix.com / article/CTX219378
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95026
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037518
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-203.html
PatchVendor Advisory