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CVE-2018-19961

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19961 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Xen through 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, including various Citrix and Debian Xen-based products. It allows a malicious guest OS user to potentially escalate privileges to the host OS due to improper TLB flushes after IOMMU mapping changes. The attack requires low privileges but has high attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.1:cu1:*:*:ltsr:*:*:*
7.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.1
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 1,525 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-19961Important

xen: insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

Nov 20, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00008.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXC6BME7SXJI2ZIATNXCAH7RGPI4UKTT
support.citrix.com / article/CTX239432
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4369
Third Party Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-275.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/106182
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry