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CVE-2018-10472

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CVE-2018-10472 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.10.x, including various Debian distributions. It allows a low-privileged x86 HVM guest OS user to read arbitrary dom0 files by manipulating QMP live CDROM insertion and snapshot backing files. The attack requires high complexity but can lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality for dom0 files, with no impact on integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.1
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 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 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10472Moderate

xen: Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM

Apr 25, 2018

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201810-06
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4201
Third Party Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-258.html
MitigationVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104002
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry