CVE-2015-7267

MEDIUM

Samsung 850 Pro/PM851 & Seagate ST500LT015/ST500LT025 Firmware - SED Protection Bypass via Hot Plug

Title source: llm

Description

Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when in sleep mode and operating in Opal or eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32; ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21; 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 leveraging failure to detect when SATA drives are unplugged in Sleep Mode, aka a "Hot Plug attack."

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004913/encryption/self-encrypting-drives-are-hardly-any-better-than-software-based-encryption.html

Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Boteanu-Bypassing-Self-Encrypting-Drives-SED-In-Enterprise-Environments-wp.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 4.2

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.4%

Attack Vector PHYSICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-254

Status published

Products (4)

samsung/850_pro_firmware

samsung/pm851_firmware

seagate/st500lt015_firmware

seagate/st500lt025_firmware

Published Nov 27, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026