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.
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tianocore
Tianocore edk2
Vendors & Products Tianocore
Tianocore edk2

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Uncleared password keystrokes in circular queue can lead to information disclosure or escalation of privilege
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': '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-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: TianoCore

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-09T15:14:14.916Z

Reserved: 2024-06-19T17:05:09.905Z

Link: CVE-2024-38798

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-09T15:14:11.425Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-09T16:17:27.787

Modified: 2025-12-09T18:37:13.640

Link: CVE-2024-38798

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-10T17:49:33Z

Weaknesses