Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting grub2 package, versions [,2.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRUB2-14052500
  • published20 Nov 2025
  • disclosed18 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-54770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade grub2 to version 2.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expired Pointer Dereference via the net_set_vlan function when the network module is unloaded from memory. An attacker can cause system instability and potentially crash the system by executing the affected command after the module has been unloaded.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1