CVE-2023-40261

State: Published
Severity: 4.6 Medium
Published: Aug 8, 2024
Updated: Mar 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 11, 2023

Description

Diebold Nixdorf Vynamic Security Suite (VSS) before 3.3.0 SR17, 4.0.0 SR07, 4.1.0 SR04, 4.2.0 SR04, and 4.3.0 SR02 fails to validate file attributes during the Pre-Boot Authorization (PBA) process. This can be exploited by a physical attacker who is able to manipulate the contents of the system's hard disk.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-665 Improper Initialization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.dieboldnixdorf.com/en-us/banking/portfolio/software/security/
https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2032%20-%20Matt%20Burch%20-%20Where%E2%80%99s%20the%20Money%20-%20Defeating%20ATM%20Disk%20Encryption-white%20paper.pdf

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