CVE-2023-4949: Detailed Vulnerability Analysis and Overview

Status: Analyzed - Last modified: 20-11-2023 Published: 10-11-2023

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CVE-2023-4949
Vulnerability Scoring

6.7
/10

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: Low Impact
  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Privileges Required: HIGH IMPACT
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • User Interaction: NONE

CIA Impact Definition

  • Confidentiality: HIGH IMPACT
  • Integrity: HIGH IMPACT
  • Availability: HIGH IMPACT

CVE-2023-4949 Vulnerability Summary

An attacker with local access to a system (either through a disk or external drive) can present a modified XFS partition to grub-legacy in such a way to exploit a memory corruption in grub’s XFS file system implementation.

Access Complexity Graph for CVE-2023-4949

Impact Analysis for CVE-2023-4949

CVE-2023-4949: Detailed Information and External References

EPSS

0.00042

EPSS %

0.05123

References

0.00042

CWE

CWE-190

CAPEC

0.00042

Vulnerable Configurations

CVSS3 Source

nvd@nist.gov

CVSS3 Type

Primary

CVSS3 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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