CVE-2025-1125

HIGH

GRUB2 < 2.12 - Out-of-bounds Write via HFS Filesystem Buffer Size Calculation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When reading data from a hfs filesystem, grub's hfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem metadata to calculate 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 hfsplus_open_compressed_real() function will write past of the internal buffer length. 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 (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1125
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346138

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/grub2 < 2.12
Published Mar 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026