There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10277
Reference (s):
- https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/2562
- URL: https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/2562