Vigil@nce - OVMF: privilege escalation via FV Parsing
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 12/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via FV Parsing of OVMF, in
order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OVMF-privilege-escalation-via-FV-Parsing-28714