CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27779

Published: Mar 03, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grubs memory layout. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Grub2 Gnu * 2.06 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.87.el7_9.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_2.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_3.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_4.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_4.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_4.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_6.3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-0.86.el7_7.3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat grub2-1:2.02-90.el8_3.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat shim-0:15.4-2.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat shim-unsigned-aarch64-0:15-7.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat shim-unsigned-x64-0:15.4-4.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat fwupd-0:1.5.9-1.el8_4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-87.el8_1.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat fwupd-0:1.1.4-4.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-0:15.4-2.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-unsigned-aarch64-0:15-7.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-unsigned-x64-0:15.4-4.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat grub2-1:2.02-87.el8_2.3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat fwupd-0:1.1.4-9.el8_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-0:15.4-2.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-unsigned-aarch64-0:15-7.el8_1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support RedHat shim-unsigned-x64-0:15.4-4.el8_1 *
Grub2 Ubuntu bionic *
Grub2 Ubuntu trusty *
Grub2 Ubuntu xenial *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu bionic *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu focal *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu groovy *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu hirsute *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu impish *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu trusty *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Grub2-signed Ubuntu xenial *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu bionic *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu focal *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu groovy *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu hirsute *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu impish *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu precise/esm *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu trusty *
Grub2-unsigned Ubuntu xenial *

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