Use After Free Affecting grub2 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRUB2-14051979
  • published20 Nov 2025
  • disclosed18 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-61662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free due to the failure to unregister the gettext command after its module is unloaded. An attacker can cause the application to access freed memory by invoking the orphaned command, potentially leading to application crashes, data integrity issues, or the exposure of sensitive information.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1