CVE-2025-4382
A flaw was found in systems utilizing LUKS-encrypted disks with GRUB configured for TPM-based auto-decryption. When GRUB is set to automatically decrypt disks using keys stored in the TPM, it reads the decryption key into system memory. If an attacker with physical access can corrupt the underlying filesystem superblock, GRUB will fail to locate a valid filesystem and enter rescue mode. At this point, the disk is already decrypted, and the decryption key remains loaded in system memory. This scenario may allow an attacker with physical access to access the unencrypted data without any further authentication, thereby compromising data confidentiality. Furthermore, the ability to force this state through filesystem corruption also presents a data integrity concern.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it only with physical access to the device, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.9 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-306
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2025-05-09
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4382
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364416
- https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grub.git;a=blobdiff;f=grub-core/kern/rescue_reader.c;h=a71ada8fb7da2eae6ee7135fe234fb1755ca78b0;hp=4259857ba9eea45446bc40ea13c3de4ab1b88ffd;hb=c448f511e74cb7c776b314fcb7943f98d3f22b6d;hpb=4abac0ad5a7914dd3cdfff08aaac06588bf98d80