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CVE-2012-6333
Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.40%
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- mitre
Description
Multiple HVM control operations in Xen 3.4 through 4.2 allow local HVM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (physical CPU consumption) via a large input.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- 55082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121203 Xen Security Advisory 27 (CVE-2012-5511) - several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 56796 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135777 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201309-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 51397 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51486 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51487 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 88129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:0446 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- xen-hvm-dos(80484) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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