CVE-2005-4176
N/A
Published: December 11, 2005 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorAWARD Bios ModularAward Bios Modular
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
AWARD Bios Modular 4.50pg 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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
80%
All versions
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (6)
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdfThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txtMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threadedQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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