PT-2020-12026
CVE-2020-10277
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Published
2020-06-24
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Updated
2021-09-14
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.4
MediumMetricsAV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
No specific software or versions are mentioned in the provided descriptions.
Description
The issue is related to the lack of a mechanism to prevent booting from a live OS image, which can lead to the extraction of sensitive files, such as the shadow file, or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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