If certificates that signed grub are installed into db, grub can be booted directly. It will then boot any kernel without signature validation. The booted kernel will think it was booted in secureboot mode and will implement lockdown, yet it could have been tampered. This flaw is a reintroduction of CVE-2020-15705 and only affects grub2 versions prior to 2.06 and upstream and distributions using the shim_lock mechanism.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-03-15T21:17:52

Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:17.504Z

Reserved: 2021-03-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3418

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-15T22:15:13.907

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:21:27.597

Link: CVE-2021-3418

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-02T18:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3418 - Bugzilla