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.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Award Award_bios_modular — versions 4.50pg
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)