Medium severity · published Mar 3, 2025
CVE-2025-0686
Grub2: romfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading dat
6.4
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup from a romfs filesystem, grub's romfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciously 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_romfs_read_symlink() may cause out-of-bounds writes when the calling grub_disk_read() function. This issue may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and can result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GR
Grub2 · Gnu
through 2.12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0686
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0686
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0686
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346121
lists.gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
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