CVE-2024-38798 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact Low

Subsequent System Integrity Impact Low

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-q2c6-37h5-7cwf

History

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality.
Title		Uncleared password keystrokes in circular queue can lead to information disclosure or escalation of privilege
Weaknesses		CWE-200
References		https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-q2c6-37h5-7cwf
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: TianoCore

Published: 2025-12-09T15:00:10.016Z

Updated: 2025-12-09T15:14:14.916Z

Reserved: 2024-06-19T17:05:09.905Z

Link: CVE-2024-38798

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-09T15:14:11.425Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-09T16:17:27.787

Modified: 2025-12-09T18:37:13.640

Link: CVE-2024-38798

Redhat

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