CVE-2017-5572

medium

Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Linux Foundation xapi in Citrix XenServer through 7.0. An authenticated read-only administrator can corrupt the host database.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
citrix	xenserver	`6.0.2`
citrix	xenserver	`6.2.0`
citrix	xenserver	`6.5`
citrix	xenserver	`7.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-269

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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