Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20908

6.7
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date July 15, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory