CVE-2011-1898
HIGH · CVSS 7.4EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.9% (58th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1896)
- Published
- August 12, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1896 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- citrix / xen
- citrix / xen
- citrix / xen
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html
- http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf(Exploit)
- http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html
- http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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