CVE-2025-0678
March 03, 2025
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 buffers size, however it misses to properly
check for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead
some of those buffer size calculation 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.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Integer Overflow or Wraparound
EPSS
Base Score:
0.04