CVE-2014-4859 (GCVE-0-2014-4859)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-31 15:08 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:27
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the Drive Execution Environment (DXE) phase in the Capsule Update feature in the UEFI implementation in EDK2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via crafted data.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Integer Overflow
Assigner
certcc CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 156 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552286 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Date Public
2014-08-07 00:00
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