VulnerabilityDeferred
CVE-2025-1118
Grub's dump command is not blocked when grub is in lockdown mode, which allows the user to read any memory information, and an attacker may leverage this in order to extract signatures, salts, and other sensitive information from the memory.
MEDIUM 4.4EPSS 0.32%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.32%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw was found in grub2. Grub's dump command is not blocked when grub is in lockdown mode, which allows the user to read any memory information, and an attacker may leverage this in order to extract signatures, salts, and other sensitive information from the memory.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.32% probability · 24th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-501
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16154
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1118
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346137
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=34824806ac6302f91e8cabaa41308eaced25725f
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.