CVE-2020-15780
Moderate
CVE-2020-15780
An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
Exploit probability
1.3%
Published
July 15, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-15780
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An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00047.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/20/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/29/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/30/3
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.7
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75b0cea7bf307f362057cc778efe89af4c615354
- https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language-2.sh
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4425-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4426-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4439-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4440-1/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/15/3