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CVE-2017-10914
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial…
High8.1EPSS 1.6%
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- mitre
Description
The grant-table feature in Xen through 4.8.x has a race condition leading to a double free, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges, aka XSA-218 bug 2.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 1038722 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201708-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3969 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 99411 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-218.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201710-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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