CVE-2017-15268 describes a memory leak vulnerability in Qemu versions up to 2.10.0, specifically within the io/channel-websock.c component, which can be triggered by remote attackers through slow data-channel read operations. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a severe impact, as it can lead to a denial of service (A:H) without requiring user interaction (UI:N) or authentication (PR:N), and has low attack complexity (AC:L) over a network (AV:N). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely targeted.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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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.