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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2024-38798 json

Uncleared password keystrokes in circular queue can lead to information disclosure or escalation of privilege

published 2025-12-09 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-02 38 d ago also EUVD-2024-55310

cvss
5.8
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to

possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege

and impact Confidentiality.

Patch / fix

  • TianoCore EDK2 edk2-stable202511
  • edk2 Debian 14 2025.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38798

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-38798 updated cvss 5.2

EDK2: EDK2: Information Disclosure and Privilege Escalation via Local BIOS Access

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 edk2, edk2-ovmf, edk2-aarch64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 edk2, edk2-ovmf, edk2-tools, edk2-aarch64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 edk2 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
11 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
CNA 4.0 5.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • TianoCore EDK2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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