vulnwire
8.8high

CVE-2017-17045

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, o…

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
8.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.4%
percentile 37%
Public exploits
0
none known

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to gain privileges on the host OS, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand (PoD) Physical-to-Machine (P2M) errors.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.43% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.08.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.07.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/102013 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1039879 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/102129 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • xenbits.xen.org /xsa/advisory-247.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201801-14 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
  • support.citrix.com /article/CTX230138 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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