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medium 6.7

CVE-2024-38433 json

Nuvoton - CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

published 2024-07-11 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-37325

cvss
6.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Nuvoton - CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

An attacker with write access to the SPI-Flash on an NPCM7xx BMC subsystem that uses the Nuvoton BootBlock

reference code can modify the u-boot image header on flash parsed by the BootBlock which could lead to arbitrary code

execution.

Patch / fix

  • Nuvoton NPCM7xx (Poleg) BootBlock v10.10.19
  • nuvoton npcm7xx_firmware v10.10.19

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Nuvoton NPCM7xx (Poleg) BootBlock
  • nuvoton npcm7xx_firmware

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-305 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

Sources

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