CVE-2017-12135

high
Published 2017-08-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian debiansidfixed4.8.1-1+deb9u3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.1-1+deb9u3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
citrixxenserver6.0.2
citrixxenserver6.2.0
citrixxenserver6.5
citrixxenserver7.0
citrixxenserver7.1
citrixxenserver7.2

References

CWEs

CWE-682

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.