CVE-2025-0690Grub2: read: integer overflow may lead to out-of-bounds write
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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.
- CVSS
- 6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-787
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 21, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 redhat:enterprise_linux | from 1:2.06-104.el9_6 not affected | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 redhat:openshift | 4 | CNA record |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6990vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0690vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346123issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
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