CVE-2023-49721

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Feb 14, 2024
Updated: Oct 24, 2024
Reserved: Dec 5, 2023

Description

An insecure default to allow UEFI Shell in EDK2 was left enabled in LXD. This allows an OS-resident attacker to bypass Secure Boot.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LXDCanonical Ltd.	0Affected

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/2040139issue-tracking
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48733issue-tracking
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/14/4mailing-list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edk2/+bug/2040137issue-tracking

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