CVE-2025-0689 HIGH

CVE-2025-0689: Grub2: udf: heap based buffer overflow in grub_udf_read_block() may lead to arbitrary code execution

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness CWE-120
Published March 3, 2025
Last update June 29, 2026

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

When reading data from disk, the grub's UDF filesystem module utilizes the user controlled data length metadata to allocate its internal buffers. In certain scenarios, while iterating through disk sectors, it assumes the read size from the disk is always smaller than the allocated buffer size which is not guaranteed. A crafted filesystem image may lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in critical data to be corrupted, resulting in the risk of arbitrary code execution by-passing secure boot protections.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

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