Recent UEFI Secure Boot Vulnerability Might Permit Cybercriminals to Load Malicious Bootkits

Information has surfaced regarding a recently fixed security loophole that might enable circumvention of the Secure Boot system in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) setups.

Information has surfaced regarding a recently fixed security loophole that might enable circumvention of the Secure Boot system in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) setups.
This loophole, labeled as CVE-2024-7344 (Common Vulnerability Scoring System score: 6.7), is present in a UEFI program authenticated using the “Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011” third-party UEFI certificate, as revealed in a recent report.

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