CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27779

Published: Mar 03, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grubs memory layout. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Grub2 Gnu * 2.06 (excluding)

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