CVE-2017-12136 is a race condition vulnerability in Xen versions 4.6.x through 4.9.x, affecting various Xen-based products from Citrix and Debian. This flaw allows a local guest OS administrator to trigger a denial of service (host crash) or potentially escalate privileges on the host system. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), exploitation requires low privileges and high attack complexity, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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