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CVE-2018-19966

CVE information

Published

5 years ago

Last Modified

4 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for a union data structure associated with shadow paging. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
8.8/10
Exploit Score
2/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
Impact Score
6/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Changed
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
4.11.0 -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -