Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2601

HighUpdated

Published: 14 December 2022

Published
14 December 2022
Modified
27 May 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2601 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A buffer overflow was found in grub_font_construct_glyph(). A malicious crafted pf2 font can lead to an overflow when calculating the max_glyph_size value, allocating a smaller than needed buffer for the glyph, this further leads to a buffer overflow and a…

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heap based out-of-bounds write. An attacker may use this vulnerability to circumvent the secure boot mechanism.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gnu
grub2
≤ 2.06
fedoraproject
fedora
37
redhat
enterprise linux eus
9.0
redhat
enterprise linux for power little endian eus
9.0
redhat
enterprise linux server aus
8.2
redhat
enterprise linux server for power little endian update services for sap solutions
8.1, 8.2, 9.0
redhat
enterprise linux server tus
8.2
redhat
enterprise linux server update services for sap solutions
8.1, 8.2, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References