CVE-2013-4577

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4577

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-4577.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-4577

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4577

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4577

Published

2014-05-12T14:55:05Z

Modified

2025-08-09T19:01:28Z

Summary

[none]

Details

A certain Debian patch for GNU GRUB uses world-readable permissions for grub.cfg, which allows local users to obtain password hashes, as demonstrated by reading the password_pbkdf2 directive in the file.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/291
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/292
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598

CVE-2013-4577

Affected packages