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CVE-2005-4175
Insyde BIOS V190 does not clear the keyboard buffer after reading the BIOS password during system startup, which allows local…
Low2.1EPSS 0.39%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 15751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20051213 Bios Information Leakage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#847537 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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