CVE-2019-14865

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-14865
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2019-11-29T10:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T23:36:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-267 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/267.html
NVD-CWE-noinfo http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-noinfo.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0335 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14865
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764925
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14865 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/101 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14865
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14865
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:15:59 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 07:11:42 2019-11-29T10:15Z 2019-11-29T10:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 07:11:42 2021-05-17T14:36:22 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 07:11:42 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 22:10:13 2023-02-02T21:18:42 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 22:10:13 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 22:10:14 References updated
2023-02-13 01:09:56 2023-02-12T23:36:07 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 01:09:57 Weakness Enumeration update