Overview
- Description
- Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.2
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 1.5
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.7
- Impact score
- 8.5
- Exploitability score
- 3.1
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-284
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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