CVE-2022-3675 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2022-3675

Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password using a Butane...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Fedora Project

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Affected Software

CoreOS
Vulnerable Versions:
testing 36.20220906.2.0 and later, next 36.20220906.1.0 and later, stable 36.20220820.3.0 and later

Timeline

Official Publish: November 3rd, 2022
Last Modified: May 2nd, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)