CVE-2023-4001 (GCVE-0-2023-4001)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-15 11:10
Modified
2025-08-30 06:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Summary
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.
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Unaffected: 1:2.06-70.el9_3.2 < * cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos |
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