An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and host OS hang) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) errors.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)