EDK II config

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A vulnerability was found in EDK II (the affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a config vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-16. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 bug was discovered 05/09/2019. The weakness was published 03/27/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at edk2-docs.gitbooks.io. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-12179 since 06/11/2018. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592.004 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at VDB-132489, VDB-132488, VDB-132487 and VDB-132486.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.8
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Class: Config
CWE: CWE-16
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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06/11/2018 🔍
03/27/2019 +289 days 🔍
03/28/2019 +1 days 🔍
05/09/2019 +42 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: FEDORA-2019-d47a9d4b8b
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-12179 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/28/2019 11:32 AM
Updated: 08/08/2023 06:07 PM
Changes: 03/28/2019 11:32 AM (53), 05/22/2020 07:13 AM (2), 08/08/2023 06:07 PM (3)
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