CVE-2025-0685 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-0685: Grub2: jfs: integer overflow when handling symlinks may lead to heap based out-of-bounds write when reading data

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness CWE-787
Published March 3, 2025
Last update June 29, 2026

CVSS base score

6.4/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a jfs filesystem, grub's jfs filesystem 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_jfs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the internal buffer length during grub_jfs_read_file(). This issue can be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 3, 2025 CVE published
June 29, 2026 Record updated