CVE-2009-3525
N/A
Published: October 5, 2009 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
The pyGrub boot loader in Xen 3.0.3, 3.3.0, and Xen-3.3.1 does not support the password option in grub.conf for para-virtualized guests, which allows attackers with access to the para-virtualized guest console to boot the guest or modify the guest's kernel boot parameters without providing the expected password.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36908Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/25/1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1472.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/8f783adc0ee3x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525740Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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