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Seagate ST500LT015 hard disk drives, when operating in eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by attaching a second SATA connector to exposed pins, maintaining an alternate power source, and attaching the data cable to another machine, aka a "Hot Unplug Attack."

Published Nov 27, 2017

Description

Seagate ST500LT015 hard disk drives, when operating in eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by attaching a second SATA connector to exposed pins, maintaining an alternate power source, and attaching the data cable to another machine, aka a "Hot Unplug Attack."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-254

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner certcc
Published Nov 27, 2017
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Sep 18, 2015
Link CVE-2015-7269
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2015-7269
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2015-7269