6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-27779

Published: 03/03/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 0.8
VMScore: 619
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions before 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged malicious user to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

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Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader CVE-2020-14372 It was discovered that the acpi command allows a privileged user to load crafted ACPI tables when Secure Boot is enabled CVE-2020-25632 A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the rmmod command CVE-2020-25647 An out-of-bound write vulnerabili ...
A flaw was found in GRUB 2, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI command when Secure Boot is enabled This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable content directly into memory The table is further loaded and exe ...
A flaw was found in grub2 The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well ...
The GRUB2's cutmem command does not honor Secure Boot locking This allows an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent Secure Boot protections after proper triage of grub's memory layout ...
HP has been informed of a potential security vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloaders commonly used by Linux This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot” (also nicknamed “BootHole”), could allow bypass of UEFI Secure Boot and allow arbitrary code execution Additional GRUB2 vulnerabilities found in response to the initial report ...
HP has been informed of a potential security vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloaders commonly used by Linux This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot” (also nicknamed “BootHole”), could allow bypass of UEFI Secure Boot and allow arbitrary code execution Additional GRUB2 vulnerabilities found in response to the initial report ...

ICS Advisories

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Mailing Lists

On 2021-02-23 we notified the distros list about multiple grub vulnerabilities This is the formal announcement sent to grub-devel which explains in a little more detail what has been done jch [snip] ...