What is CVE-2015-7267?

CVE-2015-7267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung 850 Pro, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 4.2/10. Published 2017-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2015-7267?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Samsung 850 Pro

CVE-2015-7267

Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when in sleep mode and operating in Opal or eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32; ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21; Dell Latitude E6410 laptops with BIOS A16; or Latitude E6430 laptops with BIOS A16, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by leveraging failure to detect when SATA drives are unplugged in Sleep Mode, aka a "Hot Plug attack."

EPSS: 0.003 (25.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-254

References

cret@cert.org (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cret@cert.org (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7267?: CVE-2015-7267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Samsung 850 Pro, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 4.2/10. Published 2017-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2015-7267?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.2 out of 10.