6.7
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-20225

Published: 03/03/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 0.8
VMScore: 646
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions before 2.06. The option parser allows an malicious user to write past the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader CVE-2020-14372 It was discovered that the acpi command allows a privileged user to load crafted ACPI tables when Secure Boot is enabled CVE-2020-25632 A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the rmmod command CVE-2020-25647 An out-of-bound write vulnerabili ...
A flaw was found in GRUB 2, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI command when Secure Boot is enabled This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable content directly into memory The table is further loaded and exe ...
A flaw was found in grub2 The option parser allows an attacker to write past the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms of options The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability ...
The option parser in GRUB2 allows an attacker to write past the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms of options ...
HP has been informed of a potential security vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloaders commonly used by Linux This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot” (also nicknamed “BootHole”), could allow bypass of UEFI Secure Boot and allow arbitrary code execution Additional GRUB2 vulnerabilities found in response to the initial report ...
HP has been informed of a potential security vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloaders commonly used by Linux This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot” (also nicknamed “BootHole”), could allow bypass of UEFI Secure Boot and allow arbitrary code execution Additional GRUB2 vulnerabilities found in response to the initial report ...

ICS Advisories

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Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy

Mailing Lists

<!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> oss-sec mailing list archives <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> By Date By Thread </form> <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> Multiple GRUB2 vulnerabilities <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> From: John Haxby &lt;johnhaxby () oracl ...