CVE-2025-1125
HIGHGRUB2 < 2.12 - Out-of-bounds Write via HFS Filesystem Buffer Size Calculation
Title source: llmDescription
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
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
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