CVE-2015-2890

MEDIUM

Dell Latitude/OptiPlex/Precision - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The BIOS implementation on Dell Latitude, OptiPlex, Precision Mobile Workstation, and Precision Workstation Client Solutions (CS) devices with model-dependent firmware before A21 does not enforce a BIOS_CNTL locking protection mechanism upon being woken from sleep, which allows local users to conduct EFI flash attacks by leveraging console access, a similar issue to CVE-2015-3692.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/577140

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_confirm

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BLUU-9XXQ9L

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0032

EPSS Percentile 54.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published

Products (2)

dell/bios a13

dell/bios < a20

Published Aug 01, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026