7.5

CVE-2017-15268: qemu

Modified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2017-15268
Published 12-10-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15268 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in qemu. EPSS estimates a 4.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 3
DSA-4213-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1RHSA-2018:0816RHSA-2018:1104RHSA-2018:1113SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1

Timeline

  1. 12-10-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Qemu through 2.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak by triggering slow data-channel read operations, related to io/channel-websock.c.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 4.27% 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

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.launchpad.net)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • qemu< 1:2.11+dfsg-1
Qemu1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

8 links