What is CVE-2024-2201?

CVE-2024-2201 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen, classified under CWE-1423. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-12-19.

How severe is CVE-2024-2201?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-2201 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Xen

CVE-2024-2201

A cross-privilege Spectre v2 vulnerability allows attackers to bypass all deployed mitigations, including the recent Fine(IBT), and to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory on Intel systems.

Published 2024-12-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.087 (95.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.086 · newest: 0.087 · change: +0.002

Affected products

Xen — versions See advisory "x86: Native Branch History Injection"

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1423

Public proof-of-concept exploits

EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-2201?: CVE-2024-2201 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen, classified under CWE-1423. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-2201?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-2201 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.