CVE-2020-10713

high

Description

A flaw was found in grub2, prior to version 2.06. An attacker may use the GRUB 2 flaw to hijack and tamper the GRUB verification process. This flaw also allows the bypass of Secure Boot protections. In order to load an untrusted or modified kernel, an attacker would first need to establish access to the system such as gaining physical access, obtain the ability to alter a pxe-boot network, or have remote access to a networked system with root access. With this access, an attacker could then craft a string to cause a buffer overflow by injecting a malicious payload that leads to arbitrary code execution within GRUB. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2020-10713: “BootHole” GRUB2 Bootloader Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Published: 2020-07-29

Recently disclosed vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloader dubbed “BootHole” could allow an attacker to gain silent malicious persistence by attacking the GRUB2 config file, grub.cfg. Background On July 29, researchers at Eclypsium disclosed a high severity vulnerability in the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) version 2. Dubbed “BootHole,” the flaw affects the GRUB2 bootloader in Windows and Linux devices using Secure Boot.