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CVE-2018-10472

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.6)—
Severity5.6Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.36 %higher than 28% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot.

CVSS

Base score
5.6
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.36 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
28
Score date
10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxXEN — XEN

CWEs

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