CVE-2022-3675

medium

Description

Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password using a Butane config. When this feature is enabled, GRUB requires a password to access the GRUB command-line, modify kernel command-line arguments, or boot non-default OSTree deployments. Recent Fedora CoreOS releases have a misconfiguration which allows booting non-default OSTree deployments without entering a password. This allows someone with access to the GRUB menu to boot into an older version of Fedora CoreOS, reverting any security fixes that have recently been applied to the machine. A password is still required to modify kernel command-line arguments and to access the GRUB command line.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/NHUCNH5Y4UH5DPUCXISYXXVA563TLFEJ/

https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1333

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/grub-password/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-11-03

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium