CVE-2009-4128

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Nov 30, 2009

Description

GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) 2 1.97 only compares the submitted portion of a password with the actual password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to conduct brute force attacks and bypass authentication by submitting a password whose length is 1.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555195
36968vdb-entry
gnugrub2-password-auth-bypass(54210)vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20240116 CVE-2023-4001: a password bypass vulnerability in the downstream GRUB boot managermailing-list

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