National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0706
Original release date:03/31/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the BIOS F.26 and earlier for the HP Compaq Notebook PC allows physically proximate attackers to obtain privileged access via unspecified vectors, possibly involving an authentication bypass of the power-on password.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 28495
Type: Patch Information
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBGN02319
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019730
External Source: XF
Name: compaq-pcbios-security-bypass(41521)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1043
