CVE-2024-45778

medium

A stack overflow flaw was found when reading a BFS file system.

Vendor / product: Gnu — grub2

A stack overflow flaw was found when reading a BFS file system. A crafted BFS filesystem may lead to an uncontrolled loop, causing grub2 to crash.

CVSS

5.5

5.5 (CVSS v3.1)

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

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2025-03-03 17:15

Modified: 2026-10-21 17:17

NVD status: Modified

Last synced 14 hours ago

Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 15:17 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

gnu / grub2 ≤2.12

redhat / openshift_container_platform 4.0

redhat / enterprise_linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 15:17 UTC · record ↗