CVE•Published 2016-04-14•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2015-8550
Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)
CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
EPSS percentile
61
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 39% of all CVEs
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2016-04-14
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2015-8550Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · OS
os:"Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension"Hosts Shodan identified as running Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2015-8550Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2015-8550Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2015-8550Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2015-8550GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2015-8550" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2015-85503 repos
bsauce/kernel-exploit-factoryC
Linux kernel CVE exploit analysis report and relative debug environment. You don't need to compile Linux kernel and configure your environment anymore.
vlain1337/auto-lpeShell
Auto Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
a-roshbaik/Linux-Privilege-Escalation-ExploitsC