CVE-2017-16837 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00117.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Trusted Boot Project	Trusted Boot

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trusted_boot_project:trusted_boot:1.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-8011	Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16837
https://sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/521c58e51eb5be105a29983742850e72c44ed80e/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16837
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/han

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-16T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:21.256Z

Reserved: 2017-11-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16837

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-16T02:29:05.490

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16837

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-11-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-16837 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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