VDB
CVE-2016-9379
CVE-2016-9379
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.900000095367432 HIGH
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.
EPSS 0.44% · 35.9th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7.900000095367432
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.44%
35.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | xen | 0, 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | xen | 4.5.1-0ubuntu2, 4.6.0-1ubuntu1, 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1 |
Timeline
- Nov 25, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 15, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 12, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 30, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9379 third-party-advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-198.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9379 third-party-advisory