Security Advisory

CVE-2020-27777

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-12-15 16:57:45
Last updated 2024-08-04 16:25:42
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.