CVE-2016-9380

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Jan 23, 2017 (Jan 23, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The pygrub boot loader emulator in Xen, when nul-delimited output format is requested, allows local pygrub-using guest OS administrators to read or delete arbitrary files on the host via NUL bytes in the bootloader configuration file.

Vendors: xen citrix
Products: xen, xenserver
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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