CVE-2007-5907 Privilege escalation in n/a
Medium 4.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2007-5907 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2007-5907 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Nov 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5907 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5907/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-5907/index.md)
A local attacker in a paravirtualized guest can modify CR4 TSC to crash the host, causing denial of service and potential privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-5907?
CVE-2007-5907 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Nov 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Xen 3.1.1 does not prevent modification of the CR4 TSC from applications, which allows pv guests to cause a denial of service (crash).
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5907?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xensource Inc Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2007-5907?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2007-5907 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5907 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2007-4993 Command injection in n/a
- CVE-2007-3919 Path traversal in n/a
- CVE-2007-5906 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2008-1619 The ssm_i emulation in Xen 5.1 on IA64 architectures allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dom0 panic) via certain traffic, as demo
- CVE-2007-6207 Information disclosure in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qgxw-cvg4-3v23.