CVE-2017-15589

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Oct 18, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-15589: Medium severity, CVSS 6.5 | Vulnix