CVE-2025-0677Out-of-bounds Write in Grub2

Severity
6.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 19

Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup, the grub's UFS module checks the inode's data size to allocate the internal buffer to read the file content, however, it fails to check if the symlink data size has overflown. When this occurs, grub_malloc() may be called with a smaller value than needed. When further reading the data from the disk into the buffer, the grub_ufs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the end of the allocated size. An attack can leverage this by craft

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.5 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h592-gmp8-rvr7: A flaw was found in grub22025-02-19
OSV
CVE-2025-0677: A flaw was found in grub22025-02-19

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
grub2: UFS: Integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks2025-02-18
Microsoft
Grub2: ufs: integer overflow may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when handling symlinks2025-02-11
Debian
CVE-2025-0677: grub2 - A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup, the grub's UFS modu...2025