CVE-2016-9379

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.9
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedJan 23, 2017
First seenJan 23, 2017

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xen xenNo range specified—
citrix xenserver6.0.2, 6.2.0, 6.5, 7.0—

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