VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-0678

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.29%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-03-03
Last modified2026-10-21
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-190
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190

Primary references