An update of the grub2 package has been released.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:0696 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI     command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a     Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable     content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure     Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability     is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14372)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The rmmod implementation allows the unloading of a     module used as a dependency without checking if any other dependent module is still loaded leading to a     use-after-free scenario. This could allow arbitrary code to be executed or a bypass of Secure Boot     protections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well     as system availability. (CVE-2020-25632)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. During USB device initialization, descriptors are     read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly     exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a     bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality     and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25647)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied     command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage,     without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a     variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack     frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2020-27749)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past     the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms     of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-20225)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparam_prefix() in the menu rendering code performs     a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters,     while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each     quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as     well as system availability. (CVE-2021-20233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has grub2 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI     command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a     Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable     content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure     Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability     is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14372)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The rmmod implementation allows the unloading of a     module used as a dependency without checking if any other dependent module is still loaded leading to a     use-after-free scenario. This could allow arbitrary code to be executed or a bypass of Secure Boot     protections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well     as system availability. (CVE-2020-25632)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. During USB device initialization, descriptors are     read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly     exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a     bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality     and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25647)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied     command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage,     without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a     variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack     frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2020-27749)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past     the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms     of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-20225)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparam_prefix() in the menu rendering code performs     a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters,     while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each     quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as     well as system availability. (CVE-2021-20233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the shim-unsigned-x64-15.6-1.el9 build changelog.

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI     command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a     Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable     content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure     Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability     is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14372)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The rmmod implementation allows the unloading of a     module used as a dependency without checking if any other dependent module is still loaded leading to a     use-after-free scenario. This could allow arbitrary code to be executed or a bypass of Secure Boot     protections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well     as system availability. (CVE-2020-25632)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. During USB device initialization, descriptors are     read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly     exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a     bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality     and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25647)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied     command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage,     without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a     variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack     frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2020-27749)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past     the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms     of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-20225)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparam_prefix() in the menu rendering code performs     a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters,     while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each     quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as     well as system availability. (CVE-2021-20233)

  - There's a possible overflow in handle_image() when shim tries to load and execute crafted EFI executables;
    The handle_image() function takes into account the SizeOfRawData field from each section to be loaded. An     attacker can leverage this to perform out-of-bound writes into memory. Arbitrary code execution is not     discarded in such scenario. (CVE-2022-28737)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:2566 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI     command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a     Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable     content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure     Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability     is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14372)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The rmmod implementation allows the unloading of a     module used as a dependency without checking if any other dependent module is still loaded leading to a     use-after-free scenario. This could allow arbitrary code to be executed or a bypass of Secure Boot     protections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well     as system availability. (CVE-2020-25632)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. During USB device initialization, descriptors are     read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly     exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a     bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality     and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25647)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied     command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage,     without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a     variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack     frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2020-27749)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past     the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms     of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-20225)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparam_prefix() in the menu rendering code performs     a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters,     while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each     quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as     well as system availability. (CVE-2021-20233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0699 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI     command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a     Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable     content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure     Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability     is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-14372)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The rmmod implementation allows the unloading of a     module used as a dependency without checking if any other dependent module is still loaded leading to a     use-after-free scenario. This could allow arbitrary code to be executed or a bypass of Secure Boot     protections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well     as system availability. (CVE-2020-25632)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. During USB device initialization, descriptors are     read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly     exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a     bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality     and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-25647)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Variable names present are expanded in the supplied     command line into their corresponding variable contents, using a 1kB stack buffer for temporary storage,     without sufficient bounds checking. If the function is called with a command line that references a     variable with a sufficiently large payload, it is possible to overflow the stack buffer, corrupt the stack     frame and control execution which could also circumvent Secure Boot protections. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
    (CVE-2020-27749)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The option parser allows an attacker to write past     the end of a heap-allocated buffer by calling certain commands with a large number of specific short forms     of options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as     system availability. (CVE-2021-20225)

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. Setparam_prefix() in the menu rendering code performs     a length calculation on the assumption that expressing a quoted single quote will require 3 characters,     while it actually requires 4 characters which allows an attacker to corrupt memory by one byte for each     quote in the input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as     well as system availability. (CVE-2021-20233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2022-2904:01 advisory.

    * grub2: acpi command allows privileged user to load crafted ACPI tables when Secure Boot is enabled     (CVE-2020-14372)
    * grub2: Use-after-free in rmmod command (CVE-2020-25632)
    * grub2: Out-of-bounds write in grub_usb_device_initialize() (CVE-2020-25647)
    * grub2: Stack buffer overflow in grub_parser_split_cmdline() (CVE-2020-27749)
    * grub2: cutmem command allows privileged user to remove memory regions when Secure Boot is enabled     (CVE-2020-27779)
    * grub2: Heap out-of-bounds write in short form option parser (CVE-2021-20225)
    * grub2: Heap out-of-bounds write due to miscalculation of space required for quoting (CVE-2021-20233)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the grub2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

  - A buffer overflow was found in grub_font_construct_glyph(). A malicious crafted pf2 font can lead to an     overflow when calculating the max_glyph_size value, allocating a smaller than needed buffer for the glyph,     this further leads to a buffer overflow and a heap based out-of-bounds write. An attacker may use this     vulnerability to circumvent the secure boot mechanism. (CVE-2022-2601)

  - When rendering certain unicode sequences, grub2's font code doesn't proper validate if the informed     glyph's width and height is constrained within bitmap size. As consequence an attacker can craft an input     which will lead to a out-of-bounds write into grub2's heap, leading to memory corruption and availability     issues. Although complex, arbitrary code execution could not be discarded. (CVE-2022-3775)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking     allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent     SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-27779)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The Rocky Linux 8.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_1601 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the grub2 SRPM in CIQ LTS 8.6. It addresses 26 CVEs:
    CVE-2021-3981, CVE-2021-20233, CVE-2020-14310, CVE-2022-28735, CVE-2022-28734, and 21 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	名前	製品	ファミリー	公開日	更新日	深刻度
148284	Photon OS 1.0: Grub2 PHSA-2021-1.0-0376	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	2021/4/1	2024/7/22	high
157607	AlmaLinux 8 : grub2 (ALSA-2021:0696)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	2022/2/9	2023/11/10	high
154506	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : grub2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0133)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	2021/10/27	2023/11/27	high
191200	CentOS 9 : shim-unsigned-x64-15.6-1.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2024/2/29	2024/2/29	high
184646	Rocky Linux 8 : fwupd (RLSA-2021:2566)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	2023/11/6	2023/11/6	high
208609	CentOS 7 : grub2 (RHSA-2021:0699)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2024/10/9	2024/10/9	high
294091	MiracleLinux 8 : fwupd-1.5.9-1.el8.ML.1 (AXSA:2022-2904:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	2026/1/20	2026/1/20	high
171329	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1386)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	2023/2/10	2023/9/4	high
223548	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-27779	Nessus	Misc.	2025/3/4	2026/11/6	high
364598	Rocky Linux 8.6 [CIQ] Security Update: grub2-common / grub2-efi-aa64 / grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_1601)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	2026/10/12	2026/10/12	high

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