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CVE-2017-17741

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
Severity6.5Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.47 %higher than 40% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

CVSS

Base score
6.5
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.47 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
40
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxLinux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

References

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