CVE-2005-4176 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg 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.

Published: 2005-12-11

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:h:award:award_bios_modular:4.50pg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-4171	AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg 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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00789.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751

History

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Subscriptions

Award Award Bios Modular

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-12-11T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:38:51.254Z

Reserved: 2005-12-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-4176

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-12-11T21:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-4176

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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