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CVE-2023-4001

Grub2: bypass the grub password protection feature

CVSS 6.8 MEDIUMEPSS 0.5%CWE-290
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6.8EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
15 Jan 2024Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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