Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-0690

medium Nessus Plugin ID 231434

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- 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. (CVE-2025-0690)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 231434

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_0690.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 9/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0690

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-aa64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-aa64-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-x64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-pc-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-ppc64le, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-tools-minimal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:grub2-unsigned, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-x64-cdboot, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-efi-x64-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-pc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-ppc64le-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-tools-efi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grub2-tools-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:grub2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:grub2-signed

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0690

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