Is CVE-2012-2625 being actively exploited?

CVE-2012-2625 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2012-2625?

CVE-2012-2625 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 2.7 (LOW).

CVE-2012-2625

LOW · CVSS 2.7EPSS 0.9%EU EUVD

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

Key facts

CVSS score: 2.7 (v2.0)
Severity: LOW
CVSS vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
EPSS score: 0.9% (61th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2012-2611)
Published: October 31, 2012
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2611 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

xen / xen
xen / xen
xen / xen
xen / xen
xen / xen
xen / xen-unstable

References

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817(Broken Link)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/49184(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe(Vendor Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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