The vulnerability of the bhyveload utility in FreeBSD operating systems allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the bhyveload module in FreeBSD is related to an incorrect limitation on the path name to the host-path directory with restricted access. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information by loading a specially crafted...

CVE-2024-25940 bhyveload(8) host file access

bhyveload -h may be used to grant loader access to the directory tree on the host. Affected versions of bhyveload8 do not make any attempt to restrict loader's access to , allowing the loader to read any file the host user has access to. In the bhyveload8 model, the host supplies a userboot.so to...