CVE-2021-3418

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3418
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-15 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-22 16:45:00 UTC
DescriptionIf certificates that signed grub are installed into db, grub can be booted directly. It will then boot any kernel without signature validation. The booted kernel will think it was booted in secureboot mode and will implement lockdown, yet it could have been tampered. This flaw is a reintroduction of CVE-2020-15705 and only affects grub2 versions prior to 2.06 and upstream and distributions using the shim_lock mechanism.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-281

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Grub2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1933757 – (CVE-2021-3418) CVE-2021-3418 grub2: grub 2.05 reintroduced CVE-2020-15705 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 502730 Alpine Linux Security Update for grub
  • 900055 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for grub2 2.06~rc1
  • 901831 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for grub2 (6467-1)
  • 903585 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for grub2 (3977)
  • 905842 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for grub2 (3977-1)
  • 906291 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for grub2 (6467-2)
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