6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.1%
A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system (CVE-2015-8370).
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mageia | 5 | noarch | grub2 | < 2.02-0.git9752.18.3 | grub2-2.02-0.git9752.18.3.mga5 |