CVE-2025-27466

Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface

Published Sep 11, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the
text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]

There are multiple issues related to the handling and accessing of guest
memory pages in the viridian code:

1. A NULL pointer dereference in the updating of the reference TSC area.
This is CVE-2025-27466.

2. A NULL pointer dereference by assuming the SIM page is mapped when
a synthetic timer message has to be delivered. This is
CVE-2025-58142.

3. A race in the mapping of the reference TSC page, where a guest can
get Xen to free a page while still present in the guest physical to
machine (p2m) page tables. This is CVE-2025-58143.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Not enabling the reference_tsc and stimer viridian extensions will avoid the issues.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6068-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-28913 [This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] There are multiple issues related to the handling and accessing of guest memory pages in the viridian code: 1. A NULL pointer dereference in the updating of the reference TSC area. This is CVE-2025-27466. 2. A NULL pointer dereference by assuming the SIM page is mapped when a synthetic timer message has to be delivered. This is CVE-2025-58142. 3. A race in the mapping of the reference TSC page, where a guest can get Xen to free a page while still present in the guest physical to machine (p2m) page tables. This is CVE-2025-58143.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
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First Time appeared Xen
Xen xen
Vendors & Products Xen
Xen xen
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Weaknesses CWE-395
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description [This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] There are multiple issues related to the handling and accessing of guest memory pages in the viridian code: 1. A NULL pointer dereference in the updating of the reference TSC area. This is CVE-2025-27466. 2. A NULL pointer dereference by assuming the SIM page is mapped when a synthetic timer message has to be delivered. This is CVE-2025-58142. 3. A race in the mapping of the reference TSC page, where a guest can get Xen to free a page while still present in the guest physical to machine (p2m) page tables. This is CVE-2025-58143.
Title Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface
References
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
XEN
Published
Updated
Nov 4, 2025, 9:09 PM
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025, 9:16 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 11, 2025, 2:15 PM
Modified
Oct 19, 2026, 5:10 PM