CVE-2020-10277

Published Jun 24, 2020

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@aliasrobotics.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.4
Impact score
5.5
Exploitability score
0.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.4
Impact score
5.5
Exploitability score
0.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.6
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other
cve@aliasrobotics.com
CWE-656

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

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