CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3525
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The pyGrub boot loader in Xen 3.0.3, 3.3.0, and Xen-3.3.1 does not support the password option in grub.conf for para-virtualized guests, which allows attackers with access to the para-virtualized guest console to boot the guest or modify the guest's kernel boot parameters without providing the expected password.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 3.0.3
• xen xen 3.3.0
• xen xen 3.3.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36908 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/25/1 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1472.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36523 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022950 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/8f783adc0ee3 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525740 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525740#c0 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9466 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36908 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/25/1 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1472.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36523 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022950 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/8f783adc0ee3 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525740 Exploit, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525740#c0 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9466 oval.cisecurity.org