Description
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 6.4/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Jun 24, 2020
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified