vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-20908
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 15, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 15, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025
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.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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