CVE-2023-4001

Name	CVE-2023-4001
Description	An authentication bypass flaw was found in GRUB due to the way that GRUB uses the UUID of a device to search for the configuration file that contains the password hash for the GRUB password protection feature. An attacker capable of attaching an external drive such as a USB stick containing a file system with a duplicate UUID (the same as in the "/boot/" file system) can bypass the GRUB password protection feature on UEFI systems, which enumerate removable drives before non-removable ones. This issue was introduced in a downstream patch in Red Hat's version of grub2 and does not affect the upstream package.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
grub2 (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2.06-3~deb11u6	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2.06-13+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.12-5	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
grub2	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- grub2 <not-affected> (Specific to a downstream patch in Red Hat)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224951
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223437
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3