Arbitrary File Read/Deletion Vulnerability in Xen's pygrub Boot Loader Emulator

CVE-2016-9379 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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