CVE-2017-12137 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in Xen's arch/x86/mm.c, affecting various Xen and Citrix XenServer products. It allows a local PV guest OS user to gain host OS privileges through issues related to map_grant_ref. The attack has low complexity and requires low privileges, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the host. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xenserver:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.