Vulnerability CVE-2005-4175
Published: 2005-12-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Insyde BIOS V190 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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Insyde -> Insyde bios 

 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
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