CVE-2023-39950CWE-20

Insufficient input validation in efibootguard

Medium · published August 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

efibootguard is a simple UEFI boot loader with support for safely switching between current and updated partition sets. Insufficient or missing validation and sanitization of input from untrustworthy bootloader environment files can cause crashes and probably also code injections into `bg_setenv`) or programs using `libebgenv`. This is triggered when the affected components try to modify a manipulated environment, in particular its user variables. Furthermore, `bg_printenv` may crash over invalid read accesses or report invalid results. Not affected by this issue is EFI Boot Guard's bootloader EFI binary. EFI Boot Guard release v0.15 contains required patches to sanitize and validate the bootloader environment prior to processing it in userspace. Its library and tools should be updated, so should programs statically linked against it. An update of the bootloader EFI executable is not required. The only way to prevent the issue with an unpatched EFI Boot Guard version is to avoid accesses to user variables, specifically modifications to them.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00423 · 35.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2023-08-14T20:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 AUG 20:17Z
    Insufficient input validation in efibootguard
    cvelistv5