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
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
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