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CVE-2017-9457

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Intense PC Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware does not perform capsule signature validation before upgrading the system firmware. The absence of signature validation allows an attacker with administrator privileges to flash a modified UEFI BIOS.

Affected products

• Compulab Intense Pc Firmware: through cr_2.2.0.400.2

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143481/Compulab-Intense-PC-MintBox-2-Signature-Verification.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/56
• https://watchmysys.com/blog/2017/07/cve-2017-9457-compulab-intense-pc-lacks-firmware-validation/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143481/Compulab-Intense-PC-MintBox-2-Signature-Verification.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/56
• https://watchmysys.com/blog/2017/07/cve-2017-9457-compulab-intense-pc-lacks-firmware-validation/

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