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CVE-2017-10922

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CVE-2017-10922 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.8.x, stemming from improper handling of MMIO region grant references within its grant-table feature. This flaw allows guest OS users to disrupt grant trackability, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is readily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, though it only impacts availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-10922Important

xen: grant table operations mishandle reference counts (XSA-224)

Jun 20, 2017

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201708-03
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201710-17
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-224.html
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3969
securitytracker.com / id/1038734