CVE-2021-3695

MediumCVSS 4.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a out-of-bounds write in the heap area. An attacker may take advantage of that to cause heap data corruption or eventually arbitrary code execution and circumvent secure boot protections. This issue has a high complexity to be exploited as an attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout to achieve signifcant results, also the values written into the memory are repeated three times in a row making difficult to produce valid payloads. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12.

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CVSS 3.1 4.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 6, 2022
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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