CVE-2026-97876: CWE-822 Untrusted pointer dereference in GNU grub2
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.
CVE-2026-97876: CWE-822 Untrusted pointer dereference in GNU 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
Affected software
GNU
grub2
Weaknesses
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
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