CVE-2021-20225

medium

Description

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. 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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924696

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZWZ36QK4IKU6MWDWNOOWKPH3WXZBHT2R/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220325-0001/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-03-03

Updated: 2022-04-18

Type: CWE-787

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM