CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16837

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

Affected configurations

• trusted boot project trusted boot 1.9.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References