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Vulnerability details: VCID-zf9c-2x38-aqc9
Vulnerability ID VCID-zf9c-2x38-aqc9
Aliases CVE-2021-20233
Summary grub2: Heap out-of-bounds write due to miscalculation of space required for quoting
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-20233.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-20233
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14372
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25632
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25647
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27749
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27779
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20225
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20233
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1926263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926263
ASA-202106-43 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202106-43
AVG-1629 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1629
GLSA-202104-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05
RHSA-2021:0696 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0696
RHSA-2021:0697 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0697
RHSA-2021:0698 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0698
RHSA-2021:0699 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0699
RHSA-2021:0700 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0700
RHSA-2021:0701 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0701
RHSA-2021:0702 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0702
RHSA-2021:0703 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0703
RHSA-2021:0704 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0704
RHSA-2021:1734 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1734
RHSA-2021:2566 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2566
RHSA-2021:2790 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2790
RHSA-2021:3675 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3675
USN-4992-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4992-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-20233.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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none

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.5232
EPSS Score 0.00286
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T09:17:36.074849+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-20233.json 38.6.0