CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3900
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
Intel firmware PE94510M.86A.0050.2007.0710.1559 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
• intel bios pe94510m.86a.0050.2007.0710.1559
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4205 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020738 securitytracker.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.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/604539 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495804/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4205 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020738 securitytracker.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.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/604539 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495804/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com