cve-2023-4001
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-15 11:10
Modified
2024-09-16 16:51
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Grub2: bypass the grub password protection feature
References
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0437
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0456
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0468
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4001Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224951Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://dfir.ru/2024/01/15/cve-2023-4001-a-vulnerability-in-the-downstream-grub-boot-manager/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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