CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-48733
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-02-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1188
Description
An insecure default to allow UEFI Shell in EDK2 was left enabled in Ubuntu's EDK2. This allows an OS-resident attacker to bypass Secure Boot.
Affected configurations
• canonical lxd 5.0
• canonical lxd 5.21
• tianocore edk2 (<= 2023.11-8)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edk2/+bug/2040137 Issue Tracking
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/2040139 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00028.html Mailing List
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48733 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/14/4 Mailing List
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edk2/+bug/2040137 Issue Tracking
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/2040139 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00028.html Mailing List
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48733 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/14/4 Mailing List