CVE-2015-2152
Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by (1) setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support, or connecting to the VNC server on (2) ::1 or (3) 127.0.0.1, when not compiled with SDL support.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- GLSA-201504-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1031919 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-3944 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-3721 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 73068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-3935 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0732 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1031806 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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