CVE-2019-20908 (GCVE-0-2019-20908)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-15 21:24
Modified
2024-08-05 02:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4. Incorrect access permissions for the efivar_ssdt ACPI variable could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown or secure boot restrictions, aka CID-1957a85b0032.
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