CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2020-10277
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.4
EPSS
0.36%
Original NVD Description
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
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