CVE-2020-10277CWE-656

RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation

Medium · published June 24, 2020

CVSS v3.0
6.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00375 · 30.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-656 · Reliance on Security Through Obscurity
Published
2020-06-24T04:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 04:55Z
    RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
    cvelistv5