CVE-2020-27749
Severity
6.7MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 3
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage, without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. Th…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Fedora 33, 34, Enterprise Linux 7.0, 8.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7, 8.2, 8.1
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
4Microsoft▶
A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied command line into their corresponding variable contents using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary ↗2021-03-09
Debian▶
CVE-2020-27749: grub2 - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are ...↗2020