SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-15596

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 0.37%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (prevent physical CPU usage) because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error.

CVSS 3.0
6.0 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.37% probability · 30th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Affected
xen/xen
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.