CVE-2005-4176

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.3%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 11

1st PoCDec 6

exploitation probability

1.3%top 33% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/26752 exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/26753

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

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