CVE-2025-61662

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2% (9th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 4.9 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2025-11-18) is not newer than that change (2026-09-01), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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exploit this condition by invoking the orphaned command, causing the application to access a memory location that is no longer valid. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause grub to crash, leading to a Denial of Service. Possible data integrity or confidentiality compromise is not discarded.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
9th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

November 18, 2025

Last Modified

September 1, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated May 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4830
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4823
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4822
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4760
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP So

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4654
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Serv

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4653
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4652
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4649
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4648
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10097

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-61662(20)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhcos-417.94.202605112123-02026-05-20redhat
redhatrhcos-414.92.202605060243-02026-05-13redhat
redhatrhcos-415.92.202605060220-02026-05-13redhat
redhatrhcos-416.94.202604211449-02026-04-30redhat
redhatrhcos-4.19.9.6.202604080618-02026-04-16redhat
redhatrhcos-413.92.202604080111-02026-04-16redhat
redhatrhcos-412.86.202604010116-02026-04-09redhat
redhatrhcos-418.94.202603181125-02026-03-25redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-0.87.el7_9.162026-03-23redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.06-27.el9_0.232026-03-19redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-87.el8_2.142026-03-18redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.06-61.el9_2.112026-03-18redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-99.el8_4.132026-03-17redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.06-114.el9_7.12026-03-17redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.06-86.el9_4.42026-03-17redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.06-105.el9_6.12026-03-17redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.12-29.el10_1.22026-03-16redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-170.el8_10.12026-03-16redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-123.el8_6.192026-03-16redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.12-15.el10_0.22026-03-16redhat
redhatgrub2-1:2.02-152.el8_8.32026-03-16redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
grub22.04-20 ... 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 (68 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
grub22.06-13 ... 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 (36 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
grub22.12-9 ... 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2 (9 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
grub22.12-9, 2.12-9+hurd.1, 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1, 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-2
  • every version up to 2.14-1: fixed in 2.14-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 31× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 214 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 120 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  6. 2026-10-11 20:26 UTCEG score recompute
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  11. 2026-10-10 00:55 UTCOSV refresh
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  1. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  2. 2026-09-20 09:03 UTCOSV refresh
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  19. 2026-09-01 12:28 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-01 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g7mr-vm94-3rv7 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  21. 2026-09-01 12:02 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-01 12:02 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-01 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g7mr-vm94-3rv7 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  24. 2026-08-31 18:36 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-08-31 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g7mr-vm94-3rv7 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  26. 2026-08-31 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-08-31 17:26 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-08-31 17:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g7mr-vm94-3rv7 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  29. 2026-08-30 19:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
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  52. 2026-08-08 10:12 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-08-08 10:12 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-08-08 10:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g7mr-vm94-3rv7 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  55. 2026-08-07 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-61662?
CVE-2025-61662 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on November 18, 2025. 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 application…
When was CVE-2025-61662 made public?
CVE-2025-61662 was made public on November 18, 2025: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on November 18, 2025. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 1, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-61662 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-61662 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (9th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-61662?
CVE-2025-61662 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-61662?
A fix for CVE-2025-61662 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-61662 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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