CVE record · CVE-2025-61664

Grub2: missing unregister call for normal_exit command may lead to use-after-free

CVSS 4.9 MediumEPSS 0.0015 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 18 Nov 2025, 18:20 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
GNU grub2 Package name: grub2 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grub.git
  • affected 2.14 and earlier semver
Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: grub2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: grub2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: grub2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: grub2 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-61664
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-825
Published
18 Nov 2025
Updated
5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
4.9 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0015, the 4th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 18 Nov 2025, 18:20 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 18 Nov 2025, 19:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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