CVE-2022-4020
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-28 13:00
Modified
2025-04-14 18:16
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@eset.comhttps://community.acer.com/en/kb/articles/15520-security-vulnerability-regarding-vulnerability-that-may-allow-changes-to-secure-boot-settingsVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://community.acer.com/en/kb/articles/15520-security-vulnerability-regarding-vulnerability-that-may-allow-changes-to-secure-boot-settingsVendor Advisory
Impacted products
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Acer Aspire A315-22 Version: 1.04   < 1.11
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   Acer Aspire A115-21 Version: 1.04   < 1.11
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   Acer Aspire A315-22G Version: 1.04   < 1.11
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   Acer Extensa EX215-21 Version: 1.04   < 1.11
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   Acer Extensa EX215-21G Version: 1.04   < 1.11
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