CVE-2016-2243 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Sure Start feature on HP Commercial PCs from 2015, also affecting some Samsung and Zyxel products. With a CVSS score of 7.9 (HIGH), this flaw allows a local attacker with administrative privileges to cause a BIOS recovery failure, leading to a significant impact on system availability and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.08CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:700_series_firmware:1.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.09CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:800_series_firmware:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:z240_firmware:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.09CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:700_series_firmware:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:z238_firmware:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.