CVE-2020-25647

Public on 2021-03-03
Modified on 2021-07-15
Description
A flaw was found in grub2. During USB device initialization, descriptors are read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core grub2 2021-07-14 ALAS2-2021-1684 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C