CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-27777
Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-862
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:openshift_container_platform
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900844
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=bd59380c5ba4147dcbaad3e582b55ccfd120b764
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/09/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/23/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900844