CVE-2015-7269: Seagate ST500LT015 Firmware

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

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

• Seagate ST500LT015 Firmware: affected versions not specified

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