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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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.

MEDIUM 6.7EPSS 1.37%

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 · 70th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-862
Affected
linux/linux kernel · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.