What is CVE-2022-1665?

CVE-2022-1665 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, classified under CWE-1291. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2022-06-21.

How severe is CVE-2022-1665?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2022-1665

A set of pre-production kernel packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power architecture can be booted by the grub in Secure Boot mode even though it shouldn't. These kernel builds don't have the secure boot lockdown patches applied to it and can bypass the secure boot validations, allowing the attacker to load another non-trusted code.

EPSS: 0.003 (18.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 8.0
N/a Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 8.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1291

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1665?: CVE-2022-1665 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, classified under CWE-1291. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2022-06-21.
How severe is CVE-2022-1665?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.