CVE-2025-0686 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0686 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346121

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.4