CVE-2021-3695

MEDIUM
4.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 6, 2022 at 03:06 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:05 AM UTC
14 products affected across 4 vendorsFedoraEnterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux Server Aus

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Severity
MEDIUM4.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a out-of-bounds write in the heap area. An attacker may take advantage of that to cause heap data corruption or eventually arbitrary code execution and circumvent secure boot protections. This issue has a high complexity to be exploited as an attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout to achieve signifcant results, also the values written into the memory are repeated three times in a row making difficult to produce valid payloads. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.00 ≤ v < 2.12grub-2.06
Affected range stops below 2.12, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versions
redhat-enterprise-linux (environment) · redhat-enterprise-linux-eus (environment)

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991685
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-12

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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