CVE-2020-27672
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that leads to a use-after-free involving 2MiB and 1GiB…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.26%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that leads to a use-after-free involving 2MiB and 1GiB superpages.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.26% probability · 18th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362, CWE-416
- Affected
- xen/xen · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.3% since 26 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/2020-10/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.