CVE-2023-4693
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-25 10:27
Modified
2024-11-23 03:30
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found on grub2's NTFS filesystem driver. This issue may allow a physically present attacker to present a specially crafted NTFS file system image to read arbitrary memory locations. A successful attack allows sensitive data cached in memory or EFI variable values to be leaked, presenting a high Confidentiality risk.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2456
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3184
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4693Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238343Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://dfir.ru/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4692-cve-2023-4693-vulnerabilities-in-the-grub-boot-manager/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-10/msg00028.htmlMailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q4/37Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2456
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3184
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4693Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238343Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://dfir.ru/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4692-cve-2023-4693-vulnerabilities-in-the-grub-boot-manager/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUU42E7CPYLATXOYVYNW6YTXXULAOV6L/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIRJ5UZRXX2KLR4IKBJEQUNGOCXMMDLY/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PERFILCHFEUGG3OAMC6W55P6DDIBZK4Q/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-10/msg00028.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q4/37Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-14
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0002/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 1:2.06-77.el9   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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