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CVE-2019-17346

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-17346 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.11.x, specifically impacting x86 PV guest operating systems. It stems from an incompatibility between Process Context Identifiers (PCID) and TLB flushes, allowing a malicious guest OS user to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this local vulnerability requires low privileges and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th 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 Patches (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-17346Moderate

xen: xsa292: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

Mar 5, 2019

References

seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Jan/21
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4602
Third Party Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-292.html
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/5
Mailing List
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-292.html
PatchVendor Advisory