vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-1118

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 19, 2025
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in grub2. Grub's dump command is not blocked when grub is in lockdown mode, which allows the user to read any memory information, and an attacker may leverage this in order to extract signatures, salts, and other sensitive information from the memory.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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