CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-1048

LowCVSS 3.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. It creates a temporary file with new grubenv content and renames it to the original grubenv; if killed before the rename, the temporary file remains and repeated invocations may fill the filesystem, exhausting free inodes or blocks.

Risk Assessment

Filesystem space or inode exhaustion may occur, causing service unavailability and data write issues. The risk arises with repeated invocations of the utility.

Recommendation

Update grub2 to a version containing the fix for CVE-2024-1048. Monitor inode and filesystem space usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. After the fix of CVE-2019-14865, grub2-set-bootflag will create a temporary file with the new grubenv content and rename it to the original grubenv file. If the program is killed before the rename operation, the temporary file will not be removed and may fill the filesystem when invoked multiple times, resulting in a filesystem out of free inodes or blocks.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS