Vulnerability in Insyde Bios
CVE-2005-4175
Insyde BIOS V190 does not clear the keyboard buffer after reading the BIOS password during system startup, which allows local administrators or users to read the password directly from physical memory.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (30.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Insyde Bios — versions v190
References
- www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
- www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt