CVE-2026-82018 (GCVE-0-2026-82018)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-28 21:11
Modified
2026-08-28 21:11
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-636 - Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
Summary
IGEL OS 12 before 12.9.0, 12.8.3 LTS and IGEL OS 11 before 11.11.150 contain a secure boot bypass vulnerability in the GRUB boot stage that allows physically present attackers to gain unauthorized root access by placing an unsigned empty file named igel.conf on a partition. Attackers can exploit GRUB's fail-open signature verification behavior to drop into an interactive GRUB prompt, then boot the device's own kernel with additional command-line arguments to obtain a root shell with the disk unlocked while leaving TPM PCR values unaltered.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGEL | IGEL OS 12 |
Version: 12.0.0 ≤ 12.8.2 |
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