CVE-2023-5342 describes a medium-severity vulnerability where the Fedora Secure Boot CA certificate, shipped with shim in Fedora, expired. This expiration could allow the loading of old or invalid signed boot components, potentially compromising system integrity. With a CVSS score of 4.1, exploitation requires high privileges and local access, but could lead to high impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Https://Koji.Fedoraproject.Org/Koji/Packageinfo?PackageID=14502 | Shim-X64 | >= 15.6-2, < 15.8-2CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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