Bypass of GRUB lockdown restriction in Secure Boot mode via serial command MMIO base address (GNU grub2)

CVE-2026-97876
MEDIUM 6.4

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.11 % · centile 2 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
canonical
Statut NVD
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A local attacker with control over GRUB's configuration can bypass lockdown restrictions when booting with Secure Boot and load an unsigned GRUB module, while GRUB continues to report lockdown is enabled. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of the MMIO base address passed to the GRUB serial command. GRUB does not validate that the base address corresponds to a UART device, rather than being an arbitrary memory address. This allows an attacker to trick GRUB into writing non-arbitrary data at an attacker-controlled address, including resetting the grub_file_verifiers list in a way that disables the subsequent verification of loaded modules.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-822 — Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcanonical
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security@ubuntu.com (Secondary)

Références européennes

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
GNU · grub2affected 2.12 < 2.16

Sources

SourceLicence
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ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD