CVE-2017-15595
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 21
Modified
Published: 18 Oct 2017, 08:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 19:57
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
medium
45/100 CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.46% LOW
0% probability -0.21%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 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 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking.
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: 0.46%• Percentile: 64%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
Affected Systems
- xen•xen
≤ 4.9.0
References (7)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-240.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4050
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43014/
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14