CVE-2008-3894
Published Sep 3, 2008
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- IBM Lenovo firmware 7CETB5WW 2.05 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 2.1
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-200
Vendor comments
- LenovoLenovo has released a BIOS update to address this issue. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-64580
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