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CVE-2015-7267

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when in sleep mode and operating in Opal or eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32; ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21; Dell Latitude E6410 laptops with BIOS A16; or Latitude E6430 laptops with BIOS A16, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by leveraging failure to detect when SATA drives are unplugged in Sleep Mode, aka a "Hot Plug attack."

Affected products

• Samsung 850 Pro Firmware: all versions
• Samsung Pm851 Firmware: all versions
• Seagate St500Lt015 Firmware: all versions
• Seagate St500Lt025 Firmware: all versions

References

• https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Boteanu-Bypassing-Self-Encrypting-Drives-SED-In-Enterprise-Environments-wp.pdf
• https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004913/encryption/self-encrypting-drives-are-hardly-any-better-than-software-based-encryption.html
• https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Boteanu-Bypassing-Self-Encrypting-Drives-SED-In-Enterprise-Environments-wp.pdf
• https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004913/encryption/self-encrypting-drives-are-hardly-any-better-than-software-based-encryption.html

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