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.
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
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)