CVE-2013-4577

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4577
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-05-12 14:55:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-16 01:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Grub - All All All
Application Gnu Grub - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#632598 - grub-mkconfig: CVE-2013-4577: should set safer permissions even when hashed passwords are found - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
oss-sec: CVE Request: grub-mkconfig MLIST seclists.org Patch
oss-sec: Re: CVE Request: grub-mkconfig MLIST seclists.org Patch
oss-security - CVE-2023-4001: a password bypass vulnerability in the downstream GRUB boot manager www.openwall.com
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