New Flaw in Acer Laptops Let Attackers Disable Boot Protection

Experts from Acer observed multiple Acer laptop models have vulnerabilities that might let hackers disable the ‘Secure Boot’ function and security checks to install malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-4020 (CVSS score of 8.1), was found in the HQSwSmiDxe DXE driver, which examines to see if the NVRAM variable “BootOrderSecureBootDisable” is present to disable Secure Boot. […]

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