CVE-2025-0678CWE-190

CVE-2025-0678

High · published March 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs 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 direct_read() will perform a heap based out-of-bounds write during data reading. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00284 · 19.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2025-03-03T22:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/grub2≤ 2.12—
redhat/openshift_container_platformall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 17:05Z
    Grub2: squash4: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data
    cvelistv5