### [CVE-2023-4001](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4001)
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### Description

An authentication bypass flaw was found in GRUB due to the way that GRUB uses the UUID of a device to search for the configuration file that contains the password hash for the GRUB password protection feature. An attacker capable of attaching an external drive such as a USB stick containing a file system with a duplicate UUID (the same as in the "/boot/" file system) can bypass the GRUB password protection feature on UEFI systems, which enumerate removable drives before non-removable ones. This issue was introduced in a downstream patch in Red Hat's version of grub2 and does not affect the upstream package.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds