CVE-2005-4175

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Insyde BIOS V190 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 products

Insyde Bios: v190

References

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/preboot-patch.html
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847537
http://www.pulltheplug.org/users/endrazine/Bios.Information.Leakage.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419610/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751

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