CVE-2008-7020: McAfee Safeboot Device Encryption

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee SafeBoot Device Encryption 4 build 4750 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer.

Affected products

• McAfee Safeboot Device Encryption: version 4 only

Published 2009-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.