# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-25940"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-15T04:21:57.624Z"
updatedAt: "2025-02-13T17:40:54.448Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-25940"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-25940.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25940"
title: "bhyveload(8) host file access"
summary: "`bhyveload -h \u003chost-path\u003e` may be used to grant loader access to the \u003chost-path\u003e directory tree on the host.  Affected versions of bhyveload(8) do not make any attempt to restrict loader's access to \u003chost-path\u003e, 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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"14.0-RELEASE","status":"affected","versionType":"release","lessThan":"p5"},{"version":"13.2-RELEASE","status":"affected","versionType":"release","lessThan":"p10"}],"vendor":"FreeBSD","product":"FreeBSD","defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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