VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-10277

CVSS score6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-06-24
Last modified2026-06-17

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.