CVE-2005-4175

2005-12-1121:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

32.1%

JSON

Insyde BIOS V190 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.

References

www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html

www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537

www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751