CVE-2013-4577 — Vulnetix

CVE-2013-4577 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.16% · 36.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.16%

36.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	grub2	0, 2.00-19ubuntu2, 2.00-19ubuntu3

Exploit Intelligence

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598 (circl)
[oss-security] 20131114 CVE Request: grub-mkconfig (circl)
[oss-security] 20131114 Re: CVE Request: grub-mkconfig (circl)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3 (circl)

Timeline

May 12, 2014 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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May 25, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4577 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/14 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4577 third-party-advisory

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