CVE-2023-29061

Lack of Adequate BIOS Authentication

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Nov 28, 2023
Updated: Jun 3, 2025
Reserved: Mar 30, 2023

Description

There is no BIOS password on the FACSChorus workstation. A threat actor with physical access to the workstation can potentially exploit this vulnerability to access the BIOS configuration and modify the drive boot order and BIOS pre-boot authentication.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	BD

Weaknesses

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FACSChorusBecton, Dickinson and Company (BD)	5.0 through 5.1Affected 3.0 through 3.1Affected

References

https://www.bd.com/en-us/about-bd/cybersecurity/bulletin/bd-facschorus-software

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