Overview
- Description
- An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 1.1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-388
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "216B1C01-EDB2-43CA-822C-F4959DA6D76D",
"versionEndIncluding": "4.9.1"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]