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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2024-49504 json

grub2 allows bypassing TPM-bound disk encryption on SL(E)M encrypted Images

published 2024-11-13 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-43438

cvss
7.0
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

grub2 allowed attackers with access to the grub shell to access files on the encrypted disks.

Patch / fix

  • SUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.12-28.1
  • suse opensuse_tumbleweed 2.12-28.1
  • grub2 Linux Micro 6.1 2.12-slfo.1.1_2.1
  • grub2 Linux Micro 6.0 2.12~rc1-6.1
  • grub2 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 2.12-150600.8.18.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20863-1SUSE-SU-2025:20511-1SUSE-SU-2025:0586-1

  • grub2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.12-28.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14464-1

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-2024-49504 updated cvss 8.4

grub2: grub2 allows bypassing TPM-bound disk encryption on SL(E)M encrypted Images

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 grub2, grub2-pc, grub2-efi, grub2-ppc64, grub2-tools, grub2-common, +15 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grub2, grub2-pc, grub2-tools, grub2-common, grub2-efi-x64, grub2-ppc64le, +13 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grub2, grub2-pc, grub2-tools, grub2-common, grub2-efi-x64, grub2-ppc64le, +10 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • SUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • suse opensuse_tumbleweed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.