CVE-2015-7267: Samsung 850 Pro Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when in sleep mode and operating in Opal or eDrive mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32; ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21; Dell Latitude E6410 laptops with BIOS A16; or Latitude E6430 laptops with BIOS A16, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by leveraging failure to detect when SATA drives are unplugged in Sleep Mode, aka a "Hot Plug attack."

Affected products

• Samsung 850 Pro Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Samsung PM851 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Seagate ST500LT015 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Seagate ST500LT025 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.