CVE-2020-27777 (GCVE-0-2020-27777)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-15 16:57 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:25
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Summary
A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Affected: kernel 5.10-rc1
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