CVE-2023-4001

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.8 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Jan 15, 2024
Updated: Feb 16, 2024
CWE ID 290

Summary

CVE-2023-4001 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting GRUB, a popular bootloader used in Linux systems. The flaw arises due to GRUB's method of searching for configuration files based on the UUID of a device. An attacker can exploit this by attaching an external drive with a duplicate UUID, allowing them to bypass the GRUB password protection feature on UEFI systems. This issue was introduced in a downstream patch in Red Hat's grub2 package and does not impact the upstream GRUB package.

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Affected Products

  • Fedora Operating System
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Affected Vendors

  • Fedora Project
  • Red Hat

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