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2 vulnerabilities found for WinFlash Driver by Phoenix
CVE-2023-35841 (GCVE-0-2023-35841)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-14 14:56 – Updated: 2025-07-28 20:49
VLAI?
Summary
Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Phoenix WinFlash Driver on Windows allows Privilege Escalation which allows for modification of system firmware.This issue affects WinFlash Driver: before 4.5.0.0.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | WinFlash Driver |
Affected:
0 , < 4.5.0.0
(semver)
|
Credits
Takahiro Haruyama of Broadcom
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CVE-2023-35841 (GCVE-0-2023-35841)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-05-14 14:56 – Updated: 2025-07-28 20:49
VLAI?
Summary
Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Phoenix WinFlash Driver on Windows allows Privilege Escalation which allows for modification of system firmware.This issue affects WinFlash Driver: before 4.5.0.0.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
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| Phoenix | WinFlash Driver |
Affected:
0 , < 4.5.0.0
(semver)
|
Credits
Takahiro Haruyama of Broadcom
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