CVE-2017-10915

CRITICAL

Xen < 4.8.1 - Race Condition in Shadow-Paging Feature

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The shadow-paging feature in Xen through 4.8.x mismanages page references and consequently introduces a race condition, which allows guest OS users to obtain Xen privileges, aka XSA-219.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174
Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-219.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0049
EPSS Percentile 65.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (1)
xen/xen < 4.8.1
Published Jul 05, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026