Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-0686
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 2.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.4
References
Products affected by CVE-2025-0686
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:-
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:1.98
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:1.99
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.00
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.01
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.02
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.04
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.06
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.06-150400.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.06-18.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:2.12