CVE-2020-14309
There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 when handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size. The name size leads to an arithmetic
02 Description
There's an issue with grub2 in all versions before 2.06 when handling squashfs filesystems containing a symbolic link with name length of UINT32 bytes in size. The name size leads to an arithmetic
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 41.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-07-30 12:49Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 12:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-17
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 12ece6a2f8bf7ee5d73967db0d4d77b2b9912207c6342e07c27c4d20778c3203
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852022
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0008/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4432-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4432-1/
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1169http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00017.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1168http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00016.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202104-05https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-05
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- grub2 Fixed in 2.04-9
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- grub2 Fixed in 2.04-9
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- grub2 Fixed in 2.04-9
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- grub2 Fixed in 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.26
- grub2-signed Fixed in 1.66.26
- grub2-unsigned No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- grub2 Fixed in 2.02-2ubuntu8.16
- grub2-signed Fixed in 1.93.18
- grub2-unsigned Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu47.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- grub2 Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu26.1
- grub2-signed Fixed in 1.142.3
- grub2-unsigned Fixed in 2.04-1ubuntu47.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- grub2 Fixed in 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.20Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
- grub2-signed Fixed in 1.34.22Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.