Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2152

Title: Xen

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2152.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Mar 18, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 1.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2152: Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by (1) setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support, or connecting to the VNC server on (2) ::1 or (3) 127.0.0.1, when not compiled with SDL support.

Impacted Vendors

R
redhat 1
X
xensource_inc 1
X
xen 1
F
fedoraproject 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152483.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152588.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00014.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73068 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031806 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031919 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
1.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2152 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.