CVE-2026-33243 — Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Barebox
Severity
8.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 20
Description
barebox is a bootloader. In barebox from version 2016.03.0 to before version 2026.03.1 (and the corresponding backport to 2025.09.3), an attacker could exploit a FIT signature verification vulnerability to trick the bootloader into booting different images than those that were verified as part of a signed configuration. mkimage(1) sets the hashed-nodes property of the FIT signature node to list which nodes of the FIT were hashed as part of the signing process as these will need to be verified la…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.5 | Impact: 6.0