Vulnerability Details : CVE-2023-39950
efibootguard is a simple UEFI boot loader with support for safely switching between current and updated partition sets. Insufficient or missing validation and sanitization of input from untrustworthy bootloader environment files can cause crashes and probably also code injections into `bg_setenv`) or programs using `libebgenv`. This is triggered when the affected components try to modify a manipulated environment, in particular its user variables. Furthermore, `bg_printenv` may crash over invalid read accesses or report invalid results. Not affected by this issue is EFI Boot Guard's bootloader EFI binary. EFI Boot Guard release v0.15 contains required patches to sanitize and validate the bootloader environment prior to processing it in userspace. Its library and tools should be updated, so should programs statically linked against it. An update of the bootloader EFI executable is not required. The only way to prevent the issue with an unpatched EFI Boot Guard version is to avoid accesses to user variables, specifically modifications to them.
Vulnerability category: Input validation
Products affected by CVE-2023-39950
- cpe:2.3:a:siemens:efibootguard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-39950
0.07%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 21 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2023-39950
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
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5.2
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L |
0.9
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4.2
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NIST | |
6.1
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L |
0.9
|
4.7
|
GitHub, Inc. |
CWE ids for CVE-2023-39950
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The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.Assigned by: security-advisories@github.com (Primary)
References for CVE-2023-39950
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https://github.com/siemens/efibootguard/blob/master/docs/API.md
efibootguard/docs/API.md at master · siemens/efibootguard · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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https://github.com/siemens/efibootguard/tags
Tags · siemens/efibootguard · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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https://github.com/siemens/efibootguard/blob/master/docs/TOOLS.md
efibootguard/docs/TOOLS.md at master · siemens/efibootguard · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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https://github.com/siemens/efibootguard/blob/master/docs/TOOLS.md#setting-user-variables
efibootguard/docs/TOOLS.md at master · siemens/efibootguard · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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https://github.com/siemens/efibootguard/security/advisories/GHSA-j6pp-7g99-24m7
Insufficient input validation may allow code injection into privileged user space libraries and tools · Advisory · siemens/efibootguard · GitHubThird Party Advisory
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