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CVE-2014-5118 json

Trusted Boot (tboot) before 1.8.2 has a 'loader.c' Security Bypass Vulnerability

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-5016

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Trusted Boot (tboot) before 1.8.2 has a 'loader.c' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Patch / fix

  • trusted_boot_project trusted_boot 1.8.2
  • tboot RHEL 7 1:1.8.2-1.el7

red hat advisories RHBA-2015:0584

  • tboot SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 20120115_1.7.0-0.5.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:3114-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-5118 updated cvss 1.7

tboot: argument measurement vulnerability for GRUB2+ELF kernels

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tboot
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) tboot 1.8.2-1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) tboot 1.8.2-1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) tboot 1.8.2-1.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) tboot 1.8.2-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2015:0584

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Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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