Vulnerability in Citrix Xen

CVE-2010-4238

The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic) via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2010-4238: held from 0.010 to 0.009.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.009 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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