Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
High
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2020-14308

Disclosure Date: July 29, 2020
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Description

In grub2 versions before 2.06 the grub memory allocator doesn’t check for possible arithmetic overflows on the requested allocation size. This leads the function to return invalid memory allocations which can be further used to cause possible integrity, confidentiality and availability impacts during the boot process.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
6.4 Medium
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
0.5
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
High
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • gnu,
  • opensuse

Products

  • grub2,
  • leap 15.1,
  • leap 15.2
Technical Analysis