Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when used on Windows and operating in Opal mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32 or ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21, or in Opal or eDrive mode on Dell Latitude E6410 laptops with BIOS A16 or Latitude E6430 laptops with BIOS A16, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by triggering a soft reset and booting from an alternative OS, aka a "Forced Restart Attack."
References
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https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Boteanu-Bypassing-Self-Encrypting-Drives-SED-In-Enterprise-Environments-wp.pdf | Technical Description Third Party Advisory |
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004913/encryption/self-encrypting-drives-are-hardly-any-better-than-software-based-encryption.html | Technical Description Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2017-11-27 22:29
Updated : 2024-02-28 16:04
NVD link : CVE-2015-7268
Mitre link : CVE-2015-7268
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2015-7268
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Products Affected
seagate
- st500lt015
- st500lt025
- st500lt015_firmware
- st500lt025_firmware
samsung
- pm851_firmware
- 850_pro_firmware
- pm851
- 850_pro
CWE
CWE-254
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