CVE-2017-15597
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x. Grant copying code made an implication that any grant pin would be accompanied by a suitable…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% 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. Grant copying code made an implication that any grant pin would be accompanied by a suitable page reference. Other portions of code, however, did not match up with that assumption. When such a grant copy operation is being done on a grant of a dying domain, the assumption turns out wrong. A malicious guest administrator can cause hypervisor memory corruption, most likely resulting in host crash and a Denial of Service. Privilege escalation and information leaks cannot be ruled out.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
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 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-236.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 101564 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20171024 Xen Security Advisory 236 (CVE-2017-15597) - pin count / page reference race in grant table code (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX229057 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1039653 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181018 [SECURITY] [DLA 1549-1] xen security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2017-7049 (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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