award bios 4.50pg information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in award bios 4.50pg and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2005-4176. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in award bios 4.50pg. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared 12/11/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-4176 since 12/11/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 15751†). The entry VDB-27428 is related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.7

VulDB Base Score: 4.0
VulDB Temp Score: 3.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/06/2005 🔍
12/11/2005 +5 days 🔍
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12/11/2005 +0 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +3377 days 🔍
01/19/2025 +3602 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-4176 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4176
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27429
CERT: 🔍
SecurityFocus: 15751 - Multiple Vendor BIOS Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence Weakness

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 01/19/2025 07:22
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (51), 07/28/2017 10:14 (1), 01/19/2025 07:22 (21)
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Cache ID: 216:131:103

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