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🛡️ CVE-2025-1118

🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-501 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1118 is classified as CWE-501: Trust Boundary Violation. The product mixes trusted and untrusted data in the same data structure or structured message.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1118 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 19 February 2025 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
git.savannah.gnu.org
lists.gnu.org

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-501: Trust Boundary Violation) in other software:

CVE-2025-1118 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-501
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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