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🛡️ CVE-2021-26401 on Alpine — xen

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

LFENCE/JMP (mitigation V2-2) may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2021-26401 as tracked by Alpine, for the package xen. The fix is available in version 4.15.2-r2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2021-26401 is recorded against 1 package.

  • xen (fixed in 4.15.2-r2)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 March 2022 and last revised on 15 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

xen has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2021-26401 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-03-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
xen — 4.15.2-r2

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