CVE-2014-5146
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5149.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.7 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (37th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-5044)
- Published
- August 22, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-5044 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
- xen / xen
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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