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CVE-2026-97876: CWE-822 Untrusted pointer dereference in GNU grub2

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-97876cvecve-2026-97876cwe-822
Published: 10/02/2026 (10/02/2026, 10:34:23 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: GNU
Product: grub2

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.

CVSS v3.1

Score 6.4medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

GNU

grub2

Affected versions
>=2.12 <2.16

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
canonical
Date Reserved
2026-09-25T08:49:34.867Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6abf8b8ba43b0b3b89a6828b

Added to database: 10/02/2026, 10:46:35 UTC

Last updated: 10/02/2026, 10:46:35 UTC

Views: 1

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