VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-7093

CVSS score8.2 HIGH

EPSS probability0.43%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2016-09-21

Last modified2026-06-17

Description

Xen 4.5.3, 4.6.3, and 4.7.x allow local HVM guest OS administrators to overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation.