Grub2: grub2-set-bootflag can be abused by local (pseudo-)users
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.3epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 81% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. After the fix of CVE-2019-14865, grub2-set-bootflag will create a temporary file with the new grubenv content and rename it to the original grubenv file. If the program is killed before the rename operation, the temporary file will not be removed and may fill the filesystem when invoked multiple times, resulting in a filesystem out of free inodes or blocks.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
grub2Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2456https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3184https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1048https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256827https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XRZQCVZ3XOASVFT6XLO7F2ZXOLOHIJZQ/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSJAEGRR3XHMBBBKYOVMII4P34IXEYPE/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240223-0007/https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/06/3