Overview
- Description
- An authentication bypass flaw was found in GRUB due to the way that GRUB uses the UUID of a device to search for the configuration file that contains the password hash for the GRUB password protection feature. An attacker capable of attaching an external drive such as a USB stick containing a file system with a duplicate UUID (the same as in the "/boot/" file system) can bypass the GRUB password protection feature on UEFI systems, which enumerate removable drives before non-removable ones. This issue was introduced in a downstream patch in Red Hat's version of grub2 and does not affect the upstream package.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 0.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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