CVE-2018-19967
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of certain HLE transactions associated with the KACQUIRE…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of certain HLE transactions associated with the KACQUIRE instruction prefix.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 39th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- xen/xen · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-282.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106182Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX239432Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4369Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-282.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.