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CVE-2017-15596: xen Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Modified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2017-15596UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15596DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15596
Published 18-10-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15596 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.0/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.37%
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
DSA-3969-1

Timeline

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

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.37%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.37% 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, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Alpine1 product
  • xen< 4.6.6-r2 | < 4.7.3-r3 | < 4.8.2-r0
Debian1 product
  • xen< 4.8.1-1+deb9u3
Ubuntu1 product
  • xen< 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
Xen1 product
  • xen4.4.0 | 4.4.0:rc1 | 4.4.0:rc2 | 4.4.0:rc3 | 4.4.0:rc4 | 4.4.0:rc5 | 4.4.0:rc6 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.1:rc1 | 4.4.1:rc2 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.2:rc1 | 4.4.2:rc2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.3:rc1 | 4.4.4 | 4.5.0 | 4.5.0:rc1 | 4.5.0:rc2 | 4.5.0:rc3 | 4.5.0:rc4 | 4.5.1 | 4.5.1:rc1 | 4.5.1:rc2 | 4.5.2 | 4.5.3 | 4.5.4 | 4.5.5 | 4.6.0 | 4.6.0:rc1 | 4.6.0:rc2 | 4.6.0:rc3 | 4.6.0:rc4 | 4.6.0:rc5 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.3 | 4.6.4 | 4.6.5 | 4.6.6 | 4.7.0 | 4.7.0:rc1 | 4.7.0:rc2 | 4.7.0:rc3 | 4.7.0:rc4 | 4.7.0:rc5 | 4.7.0:rc6 | 4.7.1 | 4.7.2 | 4.7.3 | 4.8.0 | 4.8.0:rc1 | 4.8.0:rc2 | 4.8.0:rc3 | 4.8.0:rc4 | 4.8.0:rc5 | 4.8.0:rc6 | 4.8.0:rc7 | 4.8.0:rc8 | 4.8.1 | 4.8.2 | 4.9.0 | 4.9.0:rc1 | 4.9.0:rc1.1 | 4.9.0:rc1.2 | 4.9.0:rc2 | 4.9.0:rc3 | 4.9.0:rc4 | 4.9.0:rc5 | 4.9.0:rc6 | 4.9.0:rc7 | 4.9.0:rc8 | 4.9.0:rc9

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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