CVE-2017-15589
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.09%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-15589
To remediate CVE-2017-15589, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.9.0-r6 or later
- —upgrade to 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1 or later
Is CVE-2017-15589 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.9.0-r6
- from 0, < 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |