vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-15780: kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via acpi_configfs
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 15, 2020 | Dec 29, 2020 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 15, 2020
Added
Dec 29, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
Solution
linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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