CVE-2017-10918

Xen vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

3.7%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Xen through 4.8.x does not validate memory allocations during certain P2M operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS access, aka XSA-222.

Affected vendor

Xen

Affected product

Xen

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2017-07-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-10918

Confirm whether Xen Xen is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-10918.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2017-10918

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2017-10918 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2017-10918?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2017-10918.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

Sg3 1010 Firmware vulnerability

CRITICAL

CVE-2022-26499

Asterisk vulnerability