CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2314
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The bootloader configuration module (pyanaconda/bootloader.py) in Anaconda uses 755 permissions for /etc/grub.d, which allows local users to obtain password hashes and conduct brute force password guessing attacks.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject anaconda
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=03ef13b625cc06873a924e0610340f8489fd92df git.fedorahosted.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080188.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/10 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53486 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819031 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=03ef13b625cc06873a924e0610340f8489fd92df git.fedorahosted.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080188.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/10 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53486 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819031 bugzilla.redhat.com