Secu Star DriveCrypt Plus Pack 3.9 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer…

Description

Secu Star DriveCrypt Plus Pack 3.9 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.35% · top 72% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 31605 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-0807.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 30818 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 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
• 20080825 [IVIZ-08-007] DriveCrypt Security Model bypass exploiting wrong BIOS API usage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 4213 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• 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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:53 UTC.