Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8 PGP Signature Firmware signature verification
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component PGP Signature Handler. The manipulation as part of a Firmware leads to a signature verification vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-347. The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
A PGP signature bypass flaw was found in fwupd (all versions), which could lead to the installation of unsigned firmware. As per upstream, a signature bypass is theoretically possible, but not practical because the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is either not implemented or enabled in versions of fwupd shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.
The weakness was released 09/15/2020 as Bug 1844316 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-10759 since 03/20/2020. The exploitability is told to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/16/2020).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Product
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Vendor
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2
VulDB Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Temp Score: 6.4
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NVD Base Score: 6.0
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Exploiting
Class: Signature verificationCWE: CWE-347 / CWE-345
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
03/20/2020 🔍09/15/2020 🔍
09/16/2020 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 1844316
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2020-10759 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 09/16/2020 07:23Updated: 09/16/2020 07:28
Changes: 09/16/2020 07:23 (41), 09/16/2020 07:28 (18)
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