CVE-2026-42488

high

Description

Some shadow paging errors paths will switch the page-tables without updating the currently running vCPU reference. This causes a mismatch between the loaded page-tables and the mapcache metadata which can lead to corruption of the mapcache.

References

https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-494.html

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-494.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/09/14

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-18

Updated: 2026-06-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00353