CVE-2019-14563

Publication date 31 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Integer truncation in EDK II may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
edk2	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-2ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
edk2	Upstream: 322ac05

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4349-1
EDK II vulnerabilities
30 April 2020

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14563

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