The CDMS-II collaboration has reported 3 events in a Si detector , which are consistent with being nuclear recoils due to scattering of Galactic dark matter particles with a mass of \sim 8.6 GeV and a cross-section on neutrons of \sim 2 \times 10 ^ { -41 } cm ^ { 2 } .
While a previous result from the XENON10 experiment has supposedly ruled out such particles as dark matter , we find by reanalysing the XENON10 data that this is not the case .
Some tension remains however with the upper limit placed by the XENON100 experiment , independently of astrophysical uncertainties concerning the Galactic dark matter distribution .
We explore possible ways of ameliorating this tension by altering the properties of dark matter interactions .
Nevertheless , even with standard couplings , light dark matter is consistent with both CDMS and XENON10/100 .