What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-7020

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier 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.

Affected products

• McAfee Safeboot Device Encryption: 4

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0378.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31903
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08010.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45275
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Sep/0378.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31903
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf
• http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08010.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45275

Get alerted when CVE-2008-7020 or the next vulnerability affects your stack