CVE-2008-3896: GNU Grub Legacy

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

Affected products

• GNU Grub Legacy: up to and including 0.97; version 0.92 only; version 0.93 only; version 0.94 only; version 0.94-i386-pc only; version 0.95 only; …

Published 2008-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.