CVE-2008-3894 describes a vulnerability in IBM Lenovo firmware version 7CETB5WW 2.05 where pre-boot authentication passwords are not cleared from the BIOS keyboard buffer after use. This allows a local attacker to potentially retrieve sensitive information by directly reading physical memory. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a low severity due to requiring local access and only impacting confidentiality. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
2.05CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:ibm:lenovo_7cetb5ww:2.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.