CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-0706

Improper Authentication

Published: Mar 31, 2008 | Modified: Aug 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Presario_a900 Compaq * *
Presario_c700 Compaq * *
G7000 Hp * *
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.2a (including) f.2a (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.2b (including) f.2b (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.2e (including) f.2e (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.2f (including) f.2f (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.18 (including) f.18 (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.21 (including) f.21 (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.26 (including) f.26 (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.28 (including) f.28 (including)
Hpqflash_for_hp_notebook_system_bios Hp f.30 (including) f.30 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References