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CVE-2020-15564

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15564 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in Xen through 4.13.x, specifically affecting Arm systems. A malicious Arm guest OS user can trigger a hypervisor crash by providing a misaligned address to the VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info hypercall, which lacks an alignment check. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and privilege requirement, with a high impact on availability. There is currently no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting no active exploitation. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.8.0, <= 4.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:arm:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-15564Moderate

xen: missing alignment check in VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info leads to DoS (XSA-327)

Jul 7, 2020

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MXESCOVI7AVRNC7HEAMFM7PMEO6D3AUH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VB3QJJZV23Z2IDYEMIHELWYSQBUEW6JP
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-02
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4723
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/07/07/5
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-327.html
PatchThird Party Advisory