Security Advisory

CVE-2024-25940

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-15 04:21:57
Last updated 2025-02-13 17:40:54
Assigner freebsd
State PUBLISHED

Description

`bhyveload -h <host-path>` may be used to grant loader access to the <host-path> directory tree on the host. Affected versions of bhyveload(8) do not make any attempt to restrict loaders access to <host-path>, allowing the loader to read any file the host user has access to. In the bhyveload(8) model, the host supplies a userboot.so to boot with, but the loader scripts generally come from the guest image. A maliciously crafted script could be used to exfiltrate sensitive data from the host accessible to the user running bhyhveload(8), which is often the system root.