CVE-2017-10912 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Xen through 4.8.x mishandles page transfer, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-217.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01672.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1132-1	xen security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3969-1	xen security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-2550	Xen through 4.8.x mishandles page transfer, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-217.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99158
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038721
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-217.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10912
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10912
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-217.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-05T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:50:12.720Z

Reserved: 2017-07-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-10912

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-05T01:29:00.580

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-10912

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-10912 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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