CVE-2020-15780
Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 3.1
- 6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.37% probability · 72th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/20/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.7Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75b0cea7bf307f362057cc778efe89af4c615354Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language-2.shPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4425-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4426-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/15/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/20/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.7Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75b0cea7bf307f362057cc778efe89af4c615354Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language-2.shPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4425-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4426-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/15/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.