xen: Hardware features unintentionally exposed to guests on ARM
Published Apr 24, 2014
5.5
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.62%
Description
Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.62% (0.00616) | 47.62th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.62% (0.00616) | 44.64th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.13% (0.00125) | 29.23th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.06% (0.00059) | 26.93th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 25, 2024 | 0.06% (0.00059) | 24.81th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.06% (0.00059) | 22.80th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 32.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 30.63th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 28.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 13.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (8)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/22/10 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030135 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2915 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090424 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2915
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2915
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/22/10 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030135 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2915 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090424 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2915 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2915 |
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