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CVE-2011-1898
Xen 4.1 before 4.1.1 and 4.0 before 4.0.2, when using PCI passthrough on Intel VT-d chipsets that do not have interrupt remapping, allows…
- 7.4HighCVSS base score
- 0.85%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Xen 4.1 before 4.1.1 and 4.0 before 4.0.2, when using PCI passthrough on Intel VT-d chipsets that do not have interrupt remapping, allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by "using DMA to generate MSI interrupts by writing to the interrupt injection registers."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.4 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.85% · top 41% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- SUSE-SU-2011:0942 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [xen-dev] 20110512 Xen security advisory CVE-2011-1898 - VT-d (PCI passthrough) MSI (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-8403 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0941 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-8421 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2011-1896 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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