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CVE-2017-12136
Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free…
High7.8EPSS 0.31%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in the grant table code in Xen 4.6.x through 4.9.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (free list corruption and host crash) or gain privileges on the host via vectors involving maptrack free list handling.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-228.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100346 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-3969 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170815 Xen Security Advisory 228 (CVE-2017-12136) - grant_table: Race conditions with maptrack free list handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477651 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201801-14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1039175 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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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