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CVE-2016-9379

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when S-expression output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via string quotes and S-expressions in the bootloader configuration file.

  • Published: Jan 23, 2017
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-9379
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.9
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
xen / xen - -
citrix / xenserver 7.0 7.0.x
citrix / xenserver 6.5 6.5.x
citrix / xenserver 6.0.2 6.0.2.x
citrix / xenserver 6.2.0 6.2.0.x