CVE-2024-23301: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local attackers to gain access to system secrets otherwise only readable by root.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Relax-And-Recover Relax-And-Recover: up to and including 2.7
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 15.0 only

Published 2024-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.