High severity · published Mar 3, 2025
CVE-2025-1125
Grub2: fs/hfs: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
When reading data from a hfs filesystem, grub's hfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem metadata to calculate the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculation to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result the hfsplus_open_compressed_real() function will write past of the internal buffer length. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% 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-2025-1125
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1125
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1125
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346138
Mailing List
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
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