CVE-2025-0677

grub2: A flaw was found in grub2

CVE-2025-0677 is fixed in 27 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2025:16154, released February 18, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
6.7
moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0033
26th percentile

A flaw was found in grub2. When performing a symlink lookup, the grub's UFS module checks the inode's data size to allocate the internal buffer to read the file content, however, it fails to check if the symlink data size has overflown. When this occurs, grub_malloc() may be called with a smaller value than needed. When further reading the data from the disk into the buffer, the grub_ufs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the end of the allocated size. An attack can leverage this by crafting a malicious filesystem, and as a result, it will corrupt data stored in the heap, allowing for arbitrary code execution used to by-pass secure boot mechanisms.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
grub2 · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 2.06-13+deb12u2 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0677 Feb 19, 2025
grub2 · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 2.12-6 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0677 Feb 19, 2025
grub2 · Debian 14 2.12-6 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-0677 Feb 19, 2025
grub2 · RHEL 10 2.12-15.el10_0 RHSA-2025:16154 Feb 18, 2025
grub2 · opensuse-leap 15.6 2.12-150600.8.18.2 SUSE-SU-2025:0586-1 Feb 19, 2025
grub2 · rocky 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0 RLSA-2025:16154 Oct 3, 2025
grub2 · rocky 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RLSA-2025:6990 Oct 4, 2025
grub2 · sles 15.6 2.12-150600.8.18.2 SUSE-SU-2025:0586-1 Feb 19, 2025
grub2-common · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-common · almalinux 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0.alma.1 ALSA-2025:16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-common · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-common · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-common · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-common · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64 · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64 · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64 · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64 · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64 · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-ec2 · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · almalinux 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0.alma.1 ALSA-2025:16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-aa64-modules · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-efi-x64 · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64 · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64 · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-x64 · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-x64 · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-ec2 · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · almalinux 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0.alma.1 ALSA-2025:16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-efi-x64-modules · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-emu · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-emu-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-emu-modules · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-pc · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-pc · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-pc · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-pc · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-pc · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · almalinux 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0.alma.1 ALSA-2025:16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-pc-modules · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-ppc64le · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-ppc64le · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-ppc64le-modules · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-ppc64le-modules · almalinux 10 1:2.12-15.el10_0.alma.1 ALSA-2025:16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-ppc64le-modules · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-tools · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-efi · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-efi · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-efi · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-efi · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-tools-efi · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-tools-efi-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-extra · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-extra · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-extra · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-extra · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-tools-extra · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal · RHEL 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal · almalinux 9 1:2.06-104.el9_6.alma.1 ALSA-2025:6990 May 13, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal · ol 10 1:2.12-15.0.1.el10_0 ELSA-2025-16154 Sep 18, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal · ol 9 1:2.06-104.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6990 May 16, 2025
grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:2.06-61.amzn2023.0.16 ALAS2023-2025-937 Apr 9, 2025

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