Is CVE-2015-7267 actively exploited?

CVE-2015-7267 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-04-20.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2015-7267?

CVE-2015-7267 has a CVSS score of 4.2 (MEDIUM severity). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

How do I patch CVE-2015-7267?

Patch guidance is available from samsung security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2015-7267.

CVE-2015-7267 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2015-7267?

4 products: samsung 850 pro firmware, samsung pm851 firmware, seagate st500lt015 firmware, seagate st500lt025 firmware.

Description

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."

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector: physical
Complexity: high
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: none
Availability: none
Weaknesses: CWE-254

Metadata

Primary Vendor: SAMSUNG
Published: 11/27/2017
Last Modified: 4/20/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

samsung : 850_pro_firmwaresamsung : pm851_firmwareseagate : st500lt015_firmwareseagate : st500lt025_firmware

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD