Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20908

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-07-15 21:24:27
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:53:09
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.