CVE-2018-3613

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Logic issue in variable service module for EDK II/UDK2018/UDK2017/UDK2015 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.

Affected products

Extensible Firmware Interface Development Kit (EDK II): udk2015, udk2017, udk2018

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2125
https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/authvariable-timestamp-zeroing-on-append_write.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ABTDKZK2G5XP6JCO3HXMPOA2NRTIYDZ/
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2125
https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/authvariable-timestamp-zeroing-on-append_write.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ABTDKZK2G5XP6JCO3HXMPOA2NRTIYDZ/
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us

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