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CVE-2016-9379
HIGH · CVSS 7.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-23T21:59:02.707 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:55.187

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.

Affected products

xen — xen

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References

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