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CVE-2017-15589

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CVE-2017-15589 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Xen through version 4.9.x, allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to read sensitive data from the host or other guest OSes. This occurs due to intercepted I/O operations causing uninitialized hypervisor stack memory to be written. The attack requires local access and low privileges, with a high impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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-2017-15589Moderate

xen: hypervisor stack leak in x86 I/O intercept code (XSA-239)

Oct 12, 2017

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00027.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00009.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201801-14
support.citrix.com / article/CTX228867
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4050
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-239.html
Mailing ListMitigationPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101496
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039568
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry