CVE-2024-38798: medium-severity vulnerability in TianoCore EDK2
Uncleared password keystrokes in circular queue can lead to information disclosure or escalation of privilege
Published
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.8epss 0.2%
EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to
possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege
and impact Confidentiality.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
Affected products
TianoCore · EDK2Related CVEs — TianoCore EDK2
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-2296HIGHUn-verified kernel bypass Secure Boot mechanism in direct boot modeEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-97631CRITICALPre-boot RCE in EDK II PXE driverEPSS 0.6%CVE-2024-38796MEDIUMInteger overflow in PeCoffLoaderRelocateImageEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-2295LOWPotential iSCSI R2T PDU VulnerabilityEPSS 0.2%CVE-2024-38805MEDIUMiSCSI Remote Memory Corruption and Denial of ServiceEPSS 0.2%CVE-2024-38797MEDIUMOut-of-bounds Read in HashPeImageByType()EPSS 0.2%