CVE-2025-0684CWE-787

CVE-2025-0684

Medium · published March 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00276 · 19.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2025-03-03T23:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/grub2≤ 2.12—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 17:14Z
    Grub2: reiserfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data
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