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CVE-2018-7540

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
Severity6.5Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.43 %higher than 36% 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 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS CPU hang) via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing.

CVSS

Base score
6.5
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.43 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
36
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

References

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