What is CVE-2017-5572?

CVE-2017-5572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Citrix Xenserver, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-01-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-5572?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Citrix Xenserver

CVE-2017-5572

An issue was discovered in Linux Foundation xapi in Citrix XenServer through 7.0. An authenticated read-only administrator can corrupt the host database.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2017-01-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Citrix Xenserver — versions 6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/95801 (vdb-entry)
support.citrix.com/article/CTX220112
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037716 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5572?: CVE-2017-5572 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Citrix Xenserver, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-01-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-5572?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.