{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3525 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2009-3525 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 5 Oct 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2009-3525 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2009-3525 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 5 Oct 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3525 exists.\n\nAffected product: Xen Xen. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3525/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3525/index.md)","id":"CVE-2009-3525","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3525/index.md","name":"CVE-2009-3525","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8xjx-475c-5hjg","RHSA-2009:1472"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Xen hypervisor","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers with guest console access can bypass boot passwords to modify kernel parameters or boot guests in Xen hypervisors.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"xen","vendor":"xen"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"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.","ecosystems":["Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::client","Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::server"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2009-09-25","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2009-09-25","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"33255","stars":null,"title":"Xen 3.x - pygrub Local Authentication Bypass"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3525","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"xen:xen","products":["xen:xen"],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2009"},"n_packages":12,"n_references":10,"next":{"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3527"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-libs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-libs","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-libs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-libs","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::client","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-devel","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:rhel_virtualization:5::server","fixed":["0:3.0.3-94.el5_4.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xen-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/xen-devel","source":"RHSA-2009:1472"}],"prev":{"headline":"Unspecified vulnerability in ashWsFtr.dll in avast!","id":"CVE-2009-3524"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2009-10-05","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10912","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10918","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10920","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10921","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface","id":"CVE-2025-27466","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-09-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface","id":"CVE-2025-58142","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-09-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface","id":"CVE-2025-58143","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-09-11"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers with guest console access can bypass boot passwords to modify kernel parameters or boot guests in Xen hypervisors.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3525/"}