[UNKNOWN] grub2

CVE-2019-14865
MEDIUM 5.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.32 % · percentile 25 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-267 — Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
[UNKNOWN] · grub2affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD