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high 7.8

CVE-2017-15588 json

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS because of a race cond…

published 2017-10-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-7040

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS because of a race condition that can cause a stale TLB entry.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15588

  • xen Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.9.2-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15588

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 4.5.5_18-22.31.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2, SLED 12 SP2 +1 more 4.7.3_06-43.15.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_24-61.12.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 4.2.5_21-45.11.1
  • xen SLES 12-LTSS 4.4.4_24-22.54.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2873-1SUSE-SU-2017:2864-1SUSE-SU-2017:2856-1SUSE-SU-2017:2815-1SUSE-SU-2017:2812-1

  • xen Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 4.9.0-r6
  • xen Alpine 3.4 4.6.6-r2
  • xen Alpine 3.5 4.7.3-r3
  • xen Alpine 3.6 4.8.2-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-15588

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15588 updated cvss 8.0

xen: Stale TLB entry due to page type release race (XSA-241)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.