CVE-2016-9379
N/A
Published: January 23, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:55 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsXenXenServer
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94473VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037347x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa198.patchVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX218775Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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