Description
Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local attackers to gain access to system secrets otherwise only readable by root.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-276
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- RELAX-AND-RECOVER
- Published
- 1/12/2024
- Last Modified
- 12/10/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
relax-and-recover : relax-and-recoversuse : linux_enterpriseredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxfedoraproject : fedora
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