CVE-2017-8903 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

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 0.00338.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.8.1:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-964-1	xen security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-17843	Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98426
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038386
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-213.html
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/05/02/updates-on-xsa-213-xsa-214-and-xsa-215/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8903
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-11
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8903
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-213.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-11T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:48:22.896Z

Reserved: 2017-05-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8903

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-11T19:29:00.227

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

Link: CVE-2017-8903

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8903 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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