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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2025-2009)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 264443

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the grub2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 does not use a constant-time algorithm for grub_crypto_memcmp and thus allows side-channel attacks.(CVE-2024-56738)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS grub2 security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected grub2 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ccbf862b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 264443

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2025-2009.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/10/2025

Updated: 9/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-pc-modules, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-extra, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-pc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-x64, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-efi, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-x64-modules, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-minimal, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56738