CVE-2020-27672
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 18.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-10-22 20:33Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 16:18Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-10-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8c99c283c423147088e29008569bc9ba3ae05c80fd50d7066bc44901b479b319
05 Affected products
06 References
- xenbits.xen.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.html
- xenbits.xen.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1783http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1844http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202011-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-6dd36a716chttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4804https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210119 Xen Security Advisory 345 v4 (CVE-2020-27672) - x86: Race condition in Xen mapping codehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/7
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xen Fixed in 4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xen Fixed in 4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xen Fixed in 4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- xen No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- xen No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- xen No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.