CVE-2023-46840medium

CVE-2023-46840: medium-severity vulnerability in Xen

VT-d: Failure to quarantine devices in !HVM builds

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.1epss 0.3%
Incorrect placement of a preprocessor directive in source code results in logic that doesn't operate as intended when support for HVM guests is compiled out of Xen.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Xen · Xen
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