CVE-2015-7268

MEDIUM

Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 Firmware - Self-Encrypting Drive Protection Bypass via Forced Restart Attack

Title source: llm

Description

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 (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