CVE-2023-4693

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.6 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Oct 25, 2023
Updated: May 22, 2024
CWE ID 125

Summary

CVE-2023-4693 is a newly discovered vulnerability affecting the grub2 NTFS filesystem driver. This issue involves an out-of-bounds read flaw that can be exploited by a physically present attacker. By presenting a specially crafted NTFS file system image, an attacker can read arbitrary memory locations, potentially leaking sensitive data cached in memory or EFI variable values. This vulnerability carries a significant Confidentiality risk.

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Affected Products

  • Gnu Grub2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Affected Vendors

  • Red Hat