Bug 2024170 (CVE-2021-3981) - CVE-2021-3981 grub2: Incorrect permission in grub.cfg allow unprivileged user to read the file content
Summary: CVE-2021-3981 grub2: Incorrect permission in grub.cfg allow unprivileged user...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-3981
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2030358 2030359 2030724
Blocks: 2024171 2025015
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Reported: 2021-11-17 13:35 UTC by Marco Benatto
Modified: 2022-05-17 09:46 UTC (History)
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A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non privileged users to read its content. This represents a low severity confidentiality issue, as those users can eventually read any encrypted passwords present in grub.cfg.
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Last Closed: 2022-05-11 12:15:34 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:2110 0 None None None 2022-05-10 15:26:27 UTC

Description Marco Benatto 2021-11-17 13:35:07 UTC 
GRUB2 grub.cfg configuration file is created with the wrong permission (0644) allowing unprivileged users to read grub's configuration file content. This presents a low Confidentiality risk as grub.cfg may contain encrypted passwords.
Comment 2 Marco Benatto 2021-12-08 14:44:00 UTC 
Created grub2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2030358]
Comment 5 Marco Benatto 2022-01-05 14:12:42 UTC 
Upstream patch for this issue:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=0adec29674561034771c13e446069b41ef41e4d4
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 15:26:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:2110 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:2110
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-05-11 12:15:32 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3981
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