CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2015-7837
Medium (5.5) in redhat. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt, and Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended securelevel/secureboot restrictions by leveraging improper handling of secure_boot flag across kexec reboot.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-254
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- redhat:enterprise_mrg
- redhat:kernel-rt