CVE-2017-15592

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 18 Oct 2017, 08:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 19:57

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.1% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Oct 2017, 08:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 19:57
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.10%• Percentile: 28%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-668•Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

    The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.

Affected Systems

  • xen•xen

    ≤ 4.9.0

References (10)