Medium (5.5) in redhat fedora coreos. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password
using a Butane config. When this feature is enabled, GRUB requires a password to access the
GRUB command-line, modify kernel command-line arguments, or boot
non-default OSTree deployments. Recent Fedora CoreOS releases have a
misconfiguration which allows booting non-default OSTree deployments
without entering a password. This allows someone with access to the
GRUB menu to boot into an older version of Fedora CoreOS, reverting
any security fixes that have recently been applied to the machine. A
password is still required to modify kernel command-line arguments and
to access the GRUB command line.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)