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CVE-2015-8370

grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 10, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write