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 escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine...

CVE-2020-10277

CVE-2020-10277 is reported under the MiR family as an improper access control issue allowing boot from a USB drive. The vulnerability enables an attacker with physical access to boot from a USB image, potentially manipulating or exfiltrating data and enabling privilege escalation. The ICSA adviso...