CVE-2013-4577: 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…

PriorityP45low2.1CVSS 2.0

AVLACLAuNCPINAN

EPSS

0.38%

30.7th percentile

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	grub2	< grub2 2.00-20 (bookworm)	grub2 2.00-20 (bookworm)
gnu	grub2	>= 0 < 2.00-20	2.00-20
gnu	grub2	>= 0 < 2.00-20	2.00-20
gnu	grub2	>= 0 < 2.00-20	2.00-20
gnu	grub2	>= 0 < 2.00-20	2.00-20

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv2.1LOW

vendor_debian2.1LOW

vendor_redhat2.1LOW

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