cve-2021-3981
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-08 14:02
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non privileged users to read its content. This represents a low severity confidentiality issue, as those users can eventually read any encrypted passwords present in grub.cfg. This flaw affects grub2 2.06 and previous versions. This issue has been fixed in grub upstream but no version with the fix is currently released.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024170Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AI776L35DDYPCSAAJPJM3ZEQYSFZHBJX/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-12Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024170Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AI776L35DDYPCSAAJPJM3ZEQYSFZHBJX/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-12Third Party Advisory
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