CVE-2025-0624

Publication date 18 February 2025

Last updated 26 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.6 · High

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in grub2. During the network boot process, when trying to search for the configuration file, grub copies data from a user controlled environment variable into an internal buffer using the grub_strcpy() function. During this step, it fails to consider the environment variable length when allocating the internal buffer, resulting in an out-of-bounds write. If correctly exploited, this issue may result in remote code execution through the same network segment grub is searching for the boot information, which can be used to by-pass secure boot protections.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
grub2 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
grub2-signed 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
grub2-unsigned 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Notes

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the grub2 package does not affect Ubuntu’s Secure Boot grub2-unsigned contains Secure Boot security fixes grub2 and grub2-unsigned should have same major version Ubuntu Secure Boot and ESM do not cover i386 trusty’s GA kernel cannot handle new versions of grub Note that key revocation is required to protect against evil housekeeper attacks (such as BlackLotus)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.6 · High
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H