5.5

CVE-2017-14431: xen

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-14431DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14431
Published 13-09-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14431 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.34%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DLA-1493-1

Timeline

  1. 13-09-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.34%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.34% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • xen< 4.8.1-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • xen< 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11 | < 4.6.5-0ubuntu1
Xen1 product
  • xen3.3.0 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 4.0.0 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.1.6 | 4.1.6.1 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.5 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.1 | 4.3.2 | 4.3.3 | 4.3.4 | 4.4.0 | 4.4.0:rc1 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 4.5.0 | 4.5.1 | 4.5.2 | 4.5.3 | 4.5.5 | 4.6.0 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.4 | 4.6.5 | 4.7.1 | 4.8.0 | 4.8.1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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