Upstream information

CVE-2023-43630 at MITRE

Description

PCR14 is not in the list of PCRs that seal/unseal the "vault" key, but
due to the change that was implemented in commit
"7638364bc0acf8b5c481b5ce5fea11ad44ad7fd4", fixing this issue alone would not solve the
problem of the config partition not being measured correctly.

Also, the "vault" key is sealed/unsealed with SHA1 PCRs instead of
SHA256.
This issue was somewhat mitigated due to all of the PCR extend functions
updating both the values of SHA256 and SHA1 for a given PCR ID.

However, due to the change that was implemented in commit
"7638364bc0acf8b5c481b5ce5fea11ad44ad7fd4", this is no longer the case for PCR14, as
the code in "measurefs.go" explicitly updates only the SHA256 instance of PCR14, which
means that even if PCR14 were to be added to the list of PCRs sealing/unsealing the "vault"
key, changes to the config partition would still not be measured.



An attacker could modify the config partition without triggering the measured boot, this could
result in the attacker gaining full control over the device with full access to the contents of the
encrypted "vault"





SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 8.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Sep 20 18:00:50 2023
CVE page last modified: Fri Feb 6 22:04:38 2026