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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.4
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)
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