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Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

CVE-2024-38433

Medium
6.7/10

Summary

Nuvoton - CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness An attacker with write access to the SPI-Flash on an NPCM7xx BMC subsystem that uses the Nuvoton BootBlock reference code can modify the u-boot image header on flash parsed by the BootBlock which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published