6.5

CVE-2017-15589: xen

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2017-15589UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15589DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15589
Published 18-10-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15589 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.41%
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 8 · Related 5
DLA-1181-1DLA-1549-1DSA-4050-1SUSE-SU-2017:2812-1SUSE-SU-2017:2815-1SUSE-SU-2017:2856-1

Timeline

  1. 18-10-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the host OS (or an arbitrary guest OS) because intercepted I/O operations can cause a write of data from uninitialized hypervisor stack memory.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.41% 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.

Alpine1 product
  • xen< 4.9.0-r6 | < 4.6.6-r2 | < 4.7.3-r3 | < 4.8.2-r3
Debian1 product
  • xen< 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
Ubuntu1 product
  • xen< 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
Xen1 product

4 vendors · 4 products

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