CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVE-2024-56738
Medium (5.3) in gnu grub2. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
GNU GRUB (aka GRUB2) through 2.12 does not use a constant-time algorithm for grub_crypto_memcmp and thus allows side-channel attacks.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-203, CWE-208
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:grub2