National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0657
Original release date:02/20/2009
Last revised:06/09/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Toshiba Face Recognition 2.0.2.32 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain notebook access by presenting a large number of images for which the viewpoint and lighting have been modified to match a stored image of the authorized notebook user.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: toshibaface-notebook-unauth-access(48963)
External Source: BID
Name: 32700
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081208 [SVRT-07-08] Vulnerability in Face Recognition Authentication Mechanism of Lenovo-Asus-Toshiba Laptops
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Nguyen/BlackHat-DC-09-Nguyen-Face-not-your-password.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-archives.html#Nguyen
External Source: MISC
Name: http://security.bkis.vn/?p=292