CVE-2025-0684

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 23/100
Published: 2025-03-03 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: High
PR: High
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
— — 0
gnu grub2 < 2.12

Bug Bounty Relevance

23 / 100
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.29%
Raw Score 0.002860
Percentile 21.3%
Date 2026-11-05

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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