CLEANSTART-2024-DB97012

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    CLEANSTART-2024-DB97012

    Published: 31 Oct 2026Last Modified: 31 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-9380

    Summary: 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 t...

    Details: Security vulnerability affects the xen package. 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.

    References: https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2024/CLEANSTART-2024-DB97012.json, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9380, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9380

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:apk/cleanstart/xen?arch=x86_64

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.7.1-r1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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