Medium severity · published Nov 3, 2022
CVE-2022-3675
Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password using a Butane config
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password using a Butane config. When this feature is enabled, GRUB requires a password to access the GRUB command-line, modify kernel command-line arguments, or boot non-default OSTree deployments. Recent Fedora CoreOS releases have a misconfiguration which allows booting non-default OSTree deployments without entering a password. This allows someone with access to the GRUB menu to boot into an older version of Fedora CoreOS, reverting any security fixes that have recently been applied to the machine. A password is still required to modify kernel command-line arguments and to access the GRUB command line.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 7% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
CoreOS · Fedora Project
testing 36.20220906.2.0 and later before testing 36.20221030.2.0 ; next 36.20220906.1.0 and later before next 37.20221031.1.0; stable 36.20220820.3.0 and later before stable 36.20221014.3.0 · source: vendor
FC
Fedora Coreos · Redhat
36.20220820.3.0 before 37.20221031.1.0 · source: NVD