CVE-2025-0685: GNU GRUB2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a jfs filesystem, grub's jfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesystem may lead some of those buffer size calculations to overflow, causing it to perform a grub_malloc() operation with a smaller size than expected. As a result, the grub_jfs_lookup_symlink() function will write past the internal buffer length during grub_jfs_read_file(). This issue can be leveraged to corrupt grub's internal critical data and may result in arbitrary code execution, by-passing secure boot protections.

Affected products

• GNU GRUB2: up to and including 2.12

Published 2025-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-30.