CVE-2020-15780

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 35
Modified
Published: 15 Jul 2020, 21:24
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 13:22

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
29/100
CVSS Score
7.2 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.69% LOW
1% probability +0.24%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Jul 2020, 21:24
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 13:22
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.69%• Percentile: 72%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-862•Missing Authorization

    The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 5.7.7

  • opensuse•leap

    15.1 | 15.2

References (14)