CVE-2025-61662
A Use-After-Free vulnerability has been discovered in GRUB's gettext module. This flaw stems from a programming error where the gettext command remains registered in memory after its module is unloaded. An attacker can exploit this condition by invoking the orphaned command, causing the application to access a memory location that is no longer valid. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause grub to crash, leading to a Denial of Service. Possible data integrity or confidentiality compromise is not discarded.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.20%
- Published
- 2025-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
Affected products
- GNU grub2
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service