CVE-2020-10277 — RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
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 escal…
Published: 2020-06-24 · CVSS: 6.4 · CVSS 3.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7