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CVE-2018-7541

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—
Severity8.8High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.43 %higher than 35% 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 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or gain privileges by triggering a grant-table transition from v2 to v1.

CVSS

Base score
8.8
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.43 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
35
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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