CVE-2023-4949

Published Nov 10, 2023

Last updated 5 months ago

Overview

Description
An attacker with local access to a system (either through a disk or external drive) can present a modified XFS partition to grub-legacy in such a way to exploit a memory corruption in grub’s XFS file system implementation.
Source
cve-coordination@google.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.7
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
0.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

cve-coordination@google.com
CWE-119
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-787

Social media

Hype score
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