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CVE-2017-15589
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the host OS (or an…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.41%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 64% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from the host OS (or an arbitrary guest OS) because intercepted I/O operations can cause a write of data from uninitialized hypervisor stack memory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- [debian-lts-announce] 20171120 [SECURITY] [DLA 1181-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 101496 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-239.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX228867 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181018 [SECURITY] [DLA 1549-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201801-14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1039568 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-7041 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-15589)Record last updated .