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.
References
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| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0686 | Vendor Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346121 | Issue Tracking |
| https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html |
Configurations
History
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| References | () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0686 - Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346121 - Issue Tracking | |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Information
Published : 2025-03-03 18:15
Updated : 2026-06-30 00:16
NVD link : CVE-2025-0686
Mitre link : CVE-2025-0686
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-0686
JSON object : View
Products Affected
gnu
- grub2
CWE
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
