CVE-2025-54771: Grub2: use-after-free in grub_file_close()
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record loaded 2026-09-20.
What to do now held facts and links
- No fix version is held. The CNA's first reference is the place to look: access.redhat.com
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in the GNU GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader). The flaw occurs because the file-closing process incorrectly retains a memory pointer, leaving an invalid reference to a file system structure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause grub to crash, leading to a Denial of Service. Possible data integrity or confidentiality compromise is not discarded.
- weakness
- CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference
- affected
- GNU grub2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- versions
- GNU grub2 <= 2.14
- fixed in
- No fix version in held sources.
- severity
- 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- assigned by
- redhat
- published
- 2025-11-18
check us access.redhat.com bugzilla.redhat.com lists.gnu.org
Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Nov 2025 | 0.00012 | |
| 24 Nov 2025 | 0.00016 | |
| 20 Dec 2025 | 0.00017 | |
| 25 Jan 2026 | 0.00018 | |
| 20 Mar 2026 | 0.00029 | |
| 16 Apr 2026 | 0.00015 | |
| 17 Apr 2026 | 0.00014 | |
| 28 Apr 2026 | 0.00017 | |
| 20 May 2026 | 0.00019 | |
| 14 Jun 2026 | 0.00022 | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.00125 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
| 17 Jun 2026 | 0.00127 | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | 0.0013 | |
| 16 Jul 2026 | 0.00144 | |
| 14 Aug 2026 | 0.00147 | |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 0.00142 |
16 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.00 on 2026-09-28 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- No fix version is held. One published by the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2025-54771', '2026-10-03T23:59:59.999999Z', now());Identity above is quoted from the CVE Program record, corpus cvelistv5_20260920, recorded 30 Sep 2026.