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CVE-2018-10982

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10982 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.10.x, specifically impacting x86 HVM guest operating systems. An attacker can trigger a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or potentially gain hypervisor privileges by manipulating HPET timers to inject interrupts. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this local attack requires low privileges and complexity, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and 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:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10982Moderate

xen: x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors (XSA-261)

May 8, 2018

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2018/05/08/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00015.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201810-06
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4201
Third Party Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-261.html
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104150
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry