CVE-2016-9380

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.09%
Published: 1/23/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-9380DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9380

Description

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader configuration file.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

References (2)