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2 vulnerabilities found for Aspire A315-22G by Acer
CVE-2022-4020 (GCVE-0-2022-4020)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 13:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:16
VLAI?
Summary
Vulnerability in the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver on some consumer Acer Notebook devices may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to modify UEFI Secure Boot settings by modifying an NVRAM variable.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer | Aspire A315-22 |
Affected:
1.04 , < 1.11
(custom)
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Credits
Martin Smolár @ ESET
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Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-11-28 13:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:16
VLAI?
Summary
Vulnerability in the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver on some consumer Acer Notebook devices may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to modify UEFI Secure Boot settings by modifying an NVRAM variable.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
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1.04 , < 1.11
(custom)
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Credits
Martin Smolár @ ESET
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