Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Released: Jan 14, 2025
Last updated: Jan 29, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2025-21215
- Impact
- Security Feature Bypass
- Max Severity
- Important
- Weakness
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 4.6 / 4.0Base score metrics: 4.6 / Temporal score metrics: 4.0
Attack Vector
Physical
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Exploit Code Maturity
Unproven
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Exploitability
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploited
- No
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Less Likely
FAQ
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then trigger an event that could exploit the vulnerability and save an invalid state to a database or trigger other unintended actions.
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass Secure Boot.
Acknowledgements
- Maxim Suhanov with CICADA8
Security Updates
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Disclaimer
Revisions
In the Security Updates table, corrected the Impact to Security Feature Bypass. This is an informational change only.
Information published.