CVE-2025-0690

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 base score
6.1 (v3.1)
Severity
MEDIUM
Attack vector
Physical
Weakness
CWE-787
Last modified
November 5, 2026
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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