CVE-2020-14372HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-14372

Published
March 12, 2021
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • cbl2 grub2 2.06~rc1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cm1 grub2 2.06~rc1-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update-
—Security Update2.06~rc1-7

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-14372

EchelonGraph score
7.5 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI command when Secure Boot is enabled. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to craft a Secondary System Description Table (SSDT) containing code to overwrite the Linux kernel lockdown variable content directly into memory. The table is further loaded and executed by the kernel, defeating its Secure Boot lockdown and allowing the attacker to load unsigned code. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity, as well as system availability.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-14372, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)