CVE-2017-10915

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 05 Jul 2017, 01:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 17:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9 CRITICAL
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.49% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Jul 2017, 01:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 17:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.49%• Percentile: 66%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-362•Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

    The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Affected Systems

  • xen•xen

    ≤ 4.8.1

References (5)