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CVE-2013-4577 (GCVE-0-2013-4577)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-12 14:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2011-07-03 00:00
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