CVE-2013-4577

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

A certain Debian patch for GNU GRUB uses world-readable permissions for grub.cfg, which allows local users to obtain password hashes, as demonstrated by reading the password_pbkdf2 directive in the file.

A certain Debian patch for GNU GRUB uses world-readable permissions for grub.cfg, which allows local users to obtain password hashes, as demonstrated by reading the password_pbkdf2 directive in the file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-05-12 14:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-05-12 16:43:00

Affected Software

GNU GRUB

References

[oss-security] 20131114 CVE Request: grub-mkconfig

Patch

[oss-security] 20131114 Re: CVE Request: grub-mkconfig

Patch

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598

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