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GHSA-R48C-47WJ-RHC5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-09 18:30 – Updated: 2025-12-09 18:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

5.8 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2024-38798 (GCVE-0-2024-38798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 15:00 – Updated: 2025-12-09 15:14

Summary

Severity ?

5.8 (Medium)


                        
                          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

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Assigner

TianoCore

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/adviso…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	TianoCore	EDK2	Affected: 0 , < edk2-stable202511 (Custom)

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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