CVE-2017-17566
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.10%Published: 12/12/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/xenfrom 0, < 4.6.6-r3
- Debian/xenfrom 0, < 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |