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
42.6%
Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll, from Cybersecurity UPV Research Group,
found an integer underflow vulnerability in Grub2, a popular bootloader.
A local attacker can bypass the Grub2 authentication by inserting a
crafted input as username or password.
More information:
http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.99-27+deb7u3.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.02~beta2-33.
We recommend that you upgrade your grub2 packages.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
grub2 | eq | 2.02~beta2-22 |