CVE-2025-54771

A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in the GNU GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader. The flaw occurs because the file-closing process incorrectly retains a memory pointer, leaving an invalid reference to a file system structure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause grub t...

CVE-2025-54770

A vulnerability has been identified in the GRUB2 bootloader's network module that poses an immediate Denial of Service DoS risk. This flaw is a Use-after-Free issue, caused because the netsetvlan command is not properly unregistered when the network module is unloaded from memory. An attacker who...

CVE-2025-61661

A vulnerability has been identified in the GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader component. This flaw occurs because the bootloader mishandles string conversion when reading information from a USB device, allowing an attacker to exploit inconsistent length values. A local attacker can connect a malicious...

CVE-2025-61662

A Use-After-Free vulnerability has been discovered in GRUB's gettext module. This flaw stems from a programming error where the gettext command remains registered in memory after its module is unloaded. An attacker can exploit this condition by invoking the orphaned command, causing the applicati...

CVE-2025-61663

A vulnerability has been identified in the GRUB2 bootloader's normal command that poses an immediate Denial of Service DoS risk. This flaw is a Use-after-Free issue, caused because the normal command is not properly unregistered when the module is unloaded. An attacker who can execute this comman...

CVE-2024-45779

An integer overflow flaw was found in the BFS file system driver in grub2. When reading a file with an indirect extent map, grub2 fails to validate the number of extent entries to be read. A crafted or corrupted BFS filesystem may cause an integer overflow during the file reading, leading to a he...

CVE-2025-1118

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...

BlackLotus UEFI Signature Detected

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CVE-2023-40546

A flaw was found in Shim when an error happened while creating a new ESL variable. If Shim fails to create the new variable, it tries to print an error message to the user; however, the number of parameters used by the logging function doesn't match the format string used by it, leading to a cras...

CVE-2023-40549

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in Shim due to the lack of proper boundary verification during the load of a PE binary. This flaw allows an attacker to load a crafted PE binary, triggering the issue and crashing Shim, resulting in a denial of service...

NSA Releases Guide to Combat Powerful BlackLotus Bootkit Targeting Windows Systems

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA on Thursday released guidance to help organizations detect and prevent infections of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus. To that end, the agency is recommending that "infrastructure owners take action by hardening user...

NSA Releases Guide to Combat Powerful BlackLotus Bootkit Targeting Windows Systems

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA on Thursday released guidance to help organizations detect and prevent infections of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus. To that end, the agency is recommending that "infrastructure owners take action by hardening user...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2023: Microsoft Edge, BlackLotus Secure Boot SFB, OLE RCE, Win32k EoP, NFS RCE, PGM RCE, LDAP RCE, SharePoint RCE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2023: Microsoft Edge, BlackLotus Secure Boot SFB, OLE RCE, Win32k EoP, NFS RCE, PGM RCE, LDAP RCE, SharePoint RCE. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between April and May Patch...

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday Fixes 38 Flaws, Including 2 Exploited Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft has rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023 to address 38 security flaws, including two zero-day bugs that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative ZDI said the volume is the lowest since August 2021, although it pointed out that "this...

Patch Tuesday - May 2023

A less crowded Patch Tuesday for May 2023: Microsoft is offering fixes for just 49 vulnerabilities this month. There are no fixes this month for printer drivers, DNS, or .NET, three components which have featured heavily in recent months. Three zero-day vulnerabilities are patched, alongside a...

Guidance related to Secure Boot Manager changes associated with CVE-2023-24932

Summary Today, Microsoft is releasing CVE-2023-24932, and associated configuration guidance, to address a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability used by the BlackLotus bootkit to exploit CVE-2022-21894. Customers will need to closely follow the configuration guidance to fully protect against this...

Guidance related to Secure Boot Manager changes associated with CVE-2023-24932

Summary Summary Today, Microsoft is releasing CVE-2023-24932, and associated configuration guidance, to address a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability used by the BlackLotus bootkit to exploit CVE-2022-21894. Customers will need to closely follow the configuration guidance to fully protect against th...

Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus campaign

This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run at computer...

Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus campaign

This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run at computer...

BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit Exploits Windows 11 vulnerability

Threat Level Attack Report Follow Hive Pro for a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here from HiveForce Labs. Summary BlackLotus is a UEFI bootkit that can exploit a vulnerability in Windows 11 systems and is advertised and sold on underground forums for $5,000...