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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 15, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-27777

CVE-2020-27777

Description

A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.

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