[CVE-2014-7155] Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root

CVE

CVE-2014-7155

Published

2016-05-24 22:00

Collected

2026-07-08 12:39

---
id: 4543
title: "[CVE-2014-7155] Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root"
cve: CVE-2014-7155
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-1-xsa-105-from-nobody-to-root.html"
published_at: "2016-05-24T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["linux", "privilege-escalation", "exploitation", "cve", "quarkslab", "xen"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4543"
lang: en
---

# [CVE-2014-7155] Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root

## Summary

First part of the Xen exploitation series: environment setup and a working privilege-escalation exploit for XSA-105 (CVE-2014-7155) on Xen 4.1.6.1, targeting HVM guests with a Debian dom0.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2014-7155
- **Published:** 2016-05-24T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-1-xsa-105-from-nobody-to-root.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4543