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Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass

Signed by Microsoft, the vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders could be abused on any system, regardless of the OS.

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The discovery of vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders, signed by Microsoft, poses a risk to systems with Secure Boot enabled.

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