CVE-2008-3900 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2008-3900?

CVE-2008-3900 is a low-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Sep 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Intel firmware PE94510M.86A.0050.2007.0710.1559 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3900?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Intel Bios.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3900?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-3900 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-3900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-14557 Memory corruption in Intel BIOS High 8.0
• CVE-2020-12360 Memory corruption in Intel(R) Processors High 7.8
• CVE-2020-8672 Memory corruption in Intel BIOS Advisory High 7.8
• CVE-2020-8739 Privilege escalation in Intel BIOS platform sample code for some Intel(R) Processors High 7.8
• CVE-2008-7096 Privilege escalation in n/a Medium 6.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f8xq-rp24-pxq8.