CVE-2025-0684

MEDIUM EPSS 16.3%
Published Mar 3, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
6.4 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Mar 3, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a reiserfs filesystem, grub's reiserfs fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculations to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result, the grub_reiserfs_read_symlink() will call grub_reiserfs_read_real() with a overflown length parameter, leading to a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

CVSS Details

Base Score
6.4
Exploitability
0.5
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
16.3% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write Memory Safety

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
gnugrub2* ≤2.12

References 2

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.