CVE-2025-0690 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-0690: Grub2: read: integer overflow may lead to out-of-bounds write

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness CWE-787
Published February 24, 2025
Last update June 29, 2026

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Physical
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The read command is used to read the keyboard input from the user, while reads it keeps the input length in a 32-bit integer value which is further used to reallocate the line buffer to accept the next character. During this process, with a line big enough it's possible to make this variable to overflow leading to a out-of-bounds write in the heap based buffer. This flaw may be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and secure boot bypass is not discarded as consequence.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 24, 2025 CVE published
June 29, 2026 Record updated