CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-6258
High (8.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-284
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- citrix:xenserver
- xen:xen