CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15780

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-07-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-07-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-862

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.7.7) • opensuse leap 15.1 • opensuse leap 15.2 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 20.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References