cve-2016-9379
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:50
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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