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CVE-2016-3699
The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled,…
High7.4EPSS 0.50%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended Secure Boot restrictions and execute untrusted code by appending ACPI tables to the initrd.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329653 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/a4a5ed2835e8ea042868b7401dced3f517cafa76 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160922 kernel: ACPI table override is allowed when securelevel is enabled (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2584 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2574 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 93114 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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