CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3894
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
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.
Affected configurations
• ibm lenovo 7cetb5ww 2.05
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4207 securityreason.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495808/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4207 securityreason.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf www.ivizsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495808/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com