Intel System Management Mode Local Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00017)

The version of the Intel BIOS on the remote host is known to be vulnerable to an as-yet unspecified privilege escalation attack. It would allow a local user with administrative privileges to upgrade administrative privileges to System Management Mode. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

BIOS Info (SMB)

It is possible to get information about the BIOS via the host's SMB interface. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid34097; scriptversion"1.11"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2026/09/28"; scriptnameenglish:"BIOS Info SMB";...

BIOS Info (WMI)

Binary data biosgetinfowmi.nbin...

CVE-2008-3902

HP firmware 68DTT F.0D 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, aka SSRT080104...

Design/Logic Flaw

HP firmware 68DTT F.0D 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, aka SSRT080104...

CVE-2008-3902

HP firmware 68DTT F.0D 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, aka SSRT080104...

CVE-2008-3902

CVE-2008-3902 affects HP firmware 68DTT F.0D. The vulnerability arises because pre-boot authentication passwords are stored in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and the buffer is not cleared after use, allowing local users to read sensitive information from memory locations associated with this buffer. Th...

Design/Logic Flaw

LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

TrueCrypt 5.0 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer. NOTE: the researcher mentions a...

CVE-2008-3896

Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

Design/Logic Flaw

Software suspend 2 2-2.2.1, when used with the Linux kernel 2.6.16, 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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

Secu Star DriveCrypt Plus Pack 3.9 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3901

Software suspend 2 2-2.2.1, when used with the Linux kernel 2.6.16, 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 overflow

Microsoft Bitlocker in Windows Vista before SP1 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer during boot, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3896

Grub Legacy 0.97 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3901

Software suspend 2 2-2.2.1, when used with the Linux kernel 2.6.16, 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...

CVE-2008-3900

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...

CVE-2008-3894

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...