CVE-2025-0690 | Grub2: read: integer overflow may lead to out-of-bounds write

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.

Published: 2025-02-24 Last update: 2026-06-25 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-0690 is rated Moderate Risk (41.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.66%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-0690

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.03% 0.66% +0.62%
2 2026-03-29 0.09% 0.03% -0.06%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.09% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-0690

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:P)
Hands-on access—USB, keyboard, opening the case—not something you do purely over the wire.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 0.2 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-0690

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-0690

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-0690 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (grub2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-0690
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0690
suse medium CVE-2025-0690 severity moderate: SUSE including 386 source package names (2.0.4-5.8.146:grub2-2.06-150500.29.43.2, 2.0.4-5.8.146:grub2-i386-pc-2.06-150500.29.43.2, …), 1417 product×package rows across 292 product lines (Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (292 product lines)): Fixed 1196, Known Affected 221. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0690/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-0690 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (grub2, grub2-signed, grub2-unsigned), 29 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 15, not-affected 8, ignored 6. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0690

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-0690

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-0690

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