CVE-2025-6177 (GCVE-0-2025-6177)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 16:43
Modified
2025-06-17 03:55
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Privilege Escalation
Summary
Privilege Escalation in MiniOS in Google ChromeOS (16063.45.2 and potentially others) on enrolled devices allows a local attacker to gain root code execution via exploiting a debug shell (VT3 console) accessible through specific key combinations during developer mode entry and MiniOS access, even when developer mode is blocked by device policy or Firmware Write Protect (FWMP).
References
7f6e188d-c52a-4a19-8674-3c3fa7d1fc7fhttps://issues.chromium.org/issues/b/382540412Broken Link
7f6e188d-c52a-4a19-8674-3c3fa7d1fc7fhttps://issuetracker.google.com/issues/382540412Issue Tracking, Mailing List
Impacted products
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