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CVE-2017-12135

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-682

Description

Xen allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information or gain privileges via vectors involving transitive grants.

Affected products

• Citrix XenServer: 6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 (and their updates)
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0 (and their updates)
• xen: all versions

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/17/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/14/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100344
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039178
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-226.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477655
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225941
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/1

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