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CVE-2016-3158

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3158 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting Xen 4.x on AMD64 processors, specifically in Fedora and Oracle Xen distributions. It allows a local guest OS user to potentially extract sensitive register content from another guest due to improper handling of the FSW.ES bit by the xrstor function, stemming from an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-2076. The CVSS score is 3.8 (LOW), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a low impact on confidentiality. 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
<= 4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:vm_server:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:vm_server:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.8LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3158Moderate

xen: AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround broken (XSA-172)

Mar 24, 2016

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181699.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181729.html
Third Party Advisory
support.citrix.com / article/CTX209443
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3554
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/85714
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1035435
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-172.html
Vendor Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/xsa172-4.3.patch
Patch
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/xsa172.patch
Patch