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CVE-2026-62427 is an improper locking vulnerability in Xen platform operations. Platform operations used for system management are serialized by a system-wide lock because certain operations cannot execute concurrently. The lock-acquisition mechanism does not provide fairness, allowing lock contention or starvation to be abused. In deployments using XSM/Flask, some platform-operation paths acquire the lock before authorization is checked, enabling even an entity whose request will later be denied to affect lock availability.
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A Xen locking issue involving sysctl and platform-operation locks that are open to abuse. The plugin cites this CVE as the source of its CVSS v2 score.
A Xen platform operation vulnerability involving unfair acquisition of a system-wide lock, with some lock acquisition occurring before permission checks when XSM/Flask is in use.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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