Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-03-27 CWE: CWE-284 Bugzilla: 1694072: CVE-2018-12179 edk2: improper configuration insystem firmware leads to privilege escalation Improper configuration in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-12179 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | ovmf | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | ovmf | Under investigation |
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