CVE-2023-4001CWE-290

Grub2: bypass the grub password protection feature

Medium · published January 15, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00542 · 44.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Published
2024-01-15T11:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JAN 11:10Z
    Grub2: bypass the grub password protection feature
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