Vulnerability in Award Bios Modular
CVE-2005-4176
AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg 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: 0.013 (68.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Award Bios Modular — versions 4.50pg
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