Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2016-9379CVE-2016-9379
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
26.1%
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | This is XSA-198 |
| tyhicks | issue present in xen-utils-4.x binary packages which are in universe |
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
26.1%