CVE-2015-8550

moderate-risk
Published 2016-04-14

Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.

Do I need to act?

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16.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 84% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.2/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Vendors

45
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 25/34 · High
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 7/34 · Low