CVE-2025-0678

HIGH

GRUB2 < 2.12 - Integer Overflow to Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Squash4 Filesystem Module

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0678
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346118

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (5)
gnu/grub2 < 2.12
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat/openshift_container_platform 4.0
Published Mar 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026