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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-42488

This causes a mismatch between the loaded page-tables and the mapcache metadata which can lead to corruption of the mapcache.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 0.35%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Some shadow paging errors paths will switch the page-tables without updating the currently running vCPU reference. This causes a mismatch between the loaded page-tables and the mapcache metadata which can lead to corruption of the mapcache.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.35% probability · 29th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Source
security@xen.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.