CVE-2013-4577

medium

Description

A certain Debian patch for GNU GRUB uses world-readable permissions for grub.cfg, which allows local users to obtain password hashes, as demonstrated by reading the password_pbkdf2 directive in the file.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/292

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/291

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-05-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00144