CVE-2021-3697

high

Description

A crafted JPEG image may lead the JPEG reader to underflow its data pointer, allowing user-controlled data to be written in heap. To a successful to be performed the attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout and craft an image with a malicious format and payload. This vulnerability can lead to data corruption and eventual code execution or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220930-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-12

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991687

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-07-06

Updated: 2023-09-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High