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CVE-2022-23034

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23034 is a medium-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Xen hypervisors, specifically impacting Debian and Fedora distributions. A malicious or compromised PV guest can trigger a hypervisor bug check by exploiting a double decrement in grant mapping reference counts, leading to an underflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.2.0, < 4.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2022-23034Moderate

xen: A PV guest could DoS Xen while unmapping a grant (XSA-394)

Jan 25, 2022

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OMR6UBGJW6JKND7IILGQ2CU35EQPF3E3
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-23
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5117
Third Party Advisory
xenbits.xenproject.org / xsa/advisory-394.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory