CVE-2009-5151 describes a vulnerability in the Absolute Computrace Agent V70.785 where its stub component executes unsigned code from the inter-partition space of a disk. This allows a privileged local attacker to achieve persistent control over BIOS behavior, independent of subsequent disk changes. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high privileges and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
70.785CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:absolute:computrace_agent:70.785:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.