CVE-2024-45774

March 5, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

6.7
Medium

Description

A flaw was found in grub2. A specially crafted JPEG file can cause the JPEG parser of grub2 to incorrectly check the bounds of its internal buffers, resulting in an out-of-bounds write. The possibility of overwriting sensitive information to bypass secure boot protections is not discarded.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
grub2

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45774
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337461
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2025-02/msg00024.html

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-787
2025-02-18
CVE-2024-45774

CVSS Score

6.7 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Feb. 18, 2025, 7:15 p.m.
Last Modified: March 5, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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