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CVE-2018-19962

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19962 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.11.x on AMD x86 platforms, where guest OS users could potentially escalate privileges to the host OS due to unsafe combining of small IOMMU mappings. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local attack requires low privileges but high attack complexity to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, 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
<= 4.11.1CPE 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
33.4%
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 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-2018-19962Important

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