CVE-2015-2152

Published Mar 18, 2015

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by (1) setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support, or connecting to the VNC server on (2) ::1 or (3) 127.0.0.1, when not compiled with SDL support.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 1.9
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Configurations

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Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References