CVE-2022-4020

Vulnerability in the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver on some consumer Acer Notebook devices may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to modify UEFI Secure Boot settings by modifying an NVRAM variable...

Acer Laptop Vulnerability Allows Malware Infection During Secure Boot

By Deeba Ahmed ESET assigned the vulnerability a CVSS score of 8.1 and tracked it as CVE-2022-4020. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Acer Laptop Vulnerability Allows Malware Infection During Secure Boot...

New Flaw in Acer Laptops Could Let Attackers Disable Secure Boot Protection

Acer has released a firmware update to address a security vulnerability that could be potentially weaponized to turn off UEFI Secure Boot on affected machines. Tracked as CVE-2022-4020, the high-severity vulnerability affects five different models that consist of Aspire A315-22, A115-21, and...

CVE-2022-4020

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2022-11-28 16:28:18+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/53577 2022-11-29 11:07:05+00:00| seen| https://t.me/truesecator/3758 2022-11-29 11:13:31+00:00| seen| https://t.me/dxe0x0/171 2022-11-29 17:40:28+00:00| seen| https://t.me/thehackernews/2811...

CVE-2022-4020

Vulnerability in the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver on some consumer Acer Notebook devices may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to modify UEFI Secure Boot settings by modifying an NVRAM variable...

CVE-2022-4020

CVE-2022-4020 affects Acer notebooks via the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver. The vulnerability lets a user with elevated privileges modify an NVRAM variable to change UEFI Secure Boot settings, potentially disabling Secure Boot and enabling unsigned code execution at boot. Reported affected models include...