CVE-2023-29061: medium-severity vulnerability in Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) FACSChorus
Lack of Adequate BIOS Authentication
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.2epss 0.4%
In short
The FACSChorus workstation has no BIOS password protection. Someone with physical access to the computer could change important system settings like boot order and security options.
Technical detail
CWE-306 vulnerability allowing unauthenticated BIOS access via physical local access. An attacker with direct hardware access can modify boot configurations and disable pre-boot authentication mechanisms, potentially enabling unauthorized system access or firmware tampering.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
There is no BIOS password on the FACSChorus workstation. A threat actor with physical access to the workstation can potentially exploit this vulnerability to access the BIOS configuration and modify the drive boot order and BIOS pre-boot authentication.
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) · FACSChorusRelated CVEs — Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) FACSChorus
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