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CVE-2016-9380 (GCVE-0-2016-9380)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:50
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-22 00:00
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