2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | requires root access to the machine which gives access to do anything anyway (unless restricting root access via SELinux, which Ubuntu does not) |
mdeslaur | let’s ignore this |