CVE-2024-56738

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Dec 29, 2024
Updated
Dec 31, 2024
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GRUB2GNU
  • 2.00 through 2.12Affected

References

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