CVSS 3.0
7.4 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-3699
The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended Secure Boot restrictions and execute untrusted code by appending ACPI tables to the initrd.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_mrg
- redhat:linux