CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8083
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 devices with BIOS before 2017-05-21 do not use the CloseMnf protection mechanism for write protection of flash memory regions, which allows local users to install a firmware rootkit by leveraging administrative privileges.
Affected configurations
• compulab intense pc firmware (<= cr 2.2.0.400.2)
• compulab mintbox 2 firmware (<= cr 2.2.0.400.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jun/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://watchmysys.com/blog/2017/06/cve-2017-8083-compulab-intensepc-lacks-bios-wp/ Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jun/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://watchmysys.com/blog/2017/06/cve-2017-8083-compulab-intensepc-lacks-bios-wp/ Third Party Advisory