CVE-2025-1118 (GCVE-0-2025-1118)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-19 17:54 – Updated: 2025-11-20 20:00
VLAI?
Summary
A flaw was found in grub2. Grub's dump command is not blocked when grub is in lockdown mode, which allows the user to read any memory information, and an attacker may leverage this in order to extract signatures, salts, and other sensitive information from the memory.
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-501 - Trust Boundary Violation
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.12 (semver)
    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Unaffected: 1:2.12-15.el10_0 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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