01 Record

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, or cause a denial of service (BUG and host OS crash) by

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 0.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Ranks above 35.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2017-11-28 23:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-28

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-416Use After FreeVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

77b08c232f92ad10ce490b04c3f4b2f2cc756ee0600a4f44d65b36bf5c94c5bf

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

xenxenNot specified—

06 References

www.securityfocus.com102013http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102013vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20181030 [SECURITY] [DLA 1559-1] xen security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00021.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
www.securitytracker.com1039879http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039879vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
www.securityfocus.com102129http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102129vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180105 [SECURITY] [DLA 1230-1] xen security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00003.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
xenbits.xen.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-247.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-14https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
support.citrix.comhttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX230138x_refsource_CONFIRM

01 Record index

CVE-2017-17045

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References

02 Records

CVE-2017-17045

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References