CVE-2025-4275

Published Jun 11, 2025

Last updated 8 months ago

CVSS high 7.8
Insyde UEFI

Overview

Description
A vulnerability in the digital signature verification process does not properly validate variable attributes which allows an attacker to bypass signature verification by creating a non-authenticated NVRAM variable. An attacker may to execute arbitrary signed UEFI code and bypass Secure Boot.
Source
8338d8cb-57f7-4252-abc0-96fd13e98d21
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
1.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending
  1. ''Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) - a fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI-compatible firmware based on Insyde H2O, part 3'' #infosec #pentest #redteam #blueteam https://t.co/Kqz5OyGSR7

    @CyberWarship

    11 Jan 2026

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  2. Hydrophobia (CVE-2025-4275): Critical UEFI flaw lets attackers bypass #SecureBoot & hijack firmware on devices like Huawei MateBook 14. Learn how a decades-old NVRAM quirk opened the door to early-stage compromise. https://t.co/QYi4PaXEMJ #UEFISecurity #CVE20254275 https:/

    @ForesietTFeed

    18 Sept 2025

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  3. Will be presenting my Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) research at OFFZONE (https://t.co/XYxy97Zwd7) 2025 on Aug 21st. It will be 1 hr long main track talk about UEFI SecureBoot, the hole Insyde left in the H2O platform for a decade, and the things we all can do to prevent such holes.

    @NikolajSchlej

    23 Jul 2025

    1819 Impressions

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  4. [1day1line] CVE-2025-4275: Secure Boot Bypass via Digital Certificate Injection through InsydeH2O's NVRAM Variable https://t.co/JQGsWLYHNt Hello, this is newp1ayer48. Today's daily line is about the CVE-2025-4275, a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability found in the InsydeH2O UEFI

    @hackyboiz

    25 Jun 2025

    2096 Impressions

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  5. Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) - a trivial SecureBoot bypass for UEFI-compatible firmware based on Insyde H2O, part 1 https://t.co/Gctot6x3DQ https://t.co/5Kjg1SFxha

    @5mukx

    21 Jun 2025

    2719 Impressions

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  6. Published the third part of my blog series about Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) vulnerability, this one is about the fix as Insyde applied it, and my thoughts on improvements for it. https://t.co/vEIkUNH3Ey

    @NikolajSchlej

    20 Jun 2025

    4827 Impressions

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  7. Top 5 Trending CVEs: 1 - CVE-2025-31200 2 - CVE-2023-50428 3 - CVE-2025-33073 4 - CVE-2025-21420 5 - CVE-2025-4275 #cve #cvetrends #cveshield #cybersecurity https://t.co/4Fua3CAN6W

    @CVEShield

    15 Jun 2025

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  8. Preliminary analysis shows that Insyde fixed Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) by forcefully removing the NVRAM vars that lead to exploitation during SecureFlashDxe driver startup, and setting a restrictive variable policy for them, so such vars can't be set from the OS anymore. https:

    @NikolajSchlej

    14 Jun 2025

    4009 Impressions

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  9. 📢 FIRMWARE GÜVENLİK DUYURUSU – Insyde UEFI Secure Boot Zafiyeti (CVE-2025-4275) Insyde Software’in H2O UEFI firmware’inde keşfedilen kritik bir güvenlik açığı, kötü niyetli aktörlerin sistemin Secure Boot mekanizmasını baypas etmesine olanak tanıyor. Zafiye

    @GMDestekMerkezi

    13 Jun 2025

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  10. #exploit 1. CVE-2025-0282: Stack-based BoF in Ivanti Connect Secure - https://t.co/gg5z4ap4Go 2. CVE-2025-4123: Grafana Path Traversal - https://t.co/0QxWl8iNVO 3. CVE-2025-4275: SecureBoot bypass for UEFI-compatible firmware based on Insyde H2O - https://t.co/l6ppF6bgYS

    @ksg93rd

    11 Jun 2025

    276 Impressions

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  11. Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) PoC - DXE volume takeover on HUAWEI MateBook 14 2023, flashing a patched BIOS with custom boot logo. No user interaction outside of the OS required, SecureBoot and firmware password remain enabled. https://t.co/DYLj3oCb9O, https://t.co/nkk0WkIzFt h

    @NikolajSchlej

    11 Jun 2025

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  12. Lenovo estimates their fixes to Hidroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) to be available no earlier than 2025-07-30 for all affected models that aren't EOL: https://t.co/hk0HlRgKVR

    @NikolajSchlej

    11 Jun 2025

    360 Impressions

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  13. CVE-2025-4275 Running the provided utility changes the certificate on any Insyde BIOS and then the attached .efi file can be launched. https://t.co/4AmbcsgPPa

    @CVEnew

    11 Jun 2025

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  14. How to check if your FW is vulnerable to Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275): obtain a BIOS dump or a BIOS update for your PC, open it in UEFITool NE, open Search window on Text tab (Ctrl+F), search for Unicode text "SecureFlashCertData". If nothing had been found, our FW is fine.

    @NikolajSchlej

    10 Jun 2025

    1890 Impressions

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  15. The embargo (12:00 UTC 2025-06-10) is over, let's start a thread on Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275), a trivial SecureBoot and FW updater signature bypass in almost any Insyde H2O-based UEFI firmware used since 2012 and still in use today. English writeup: https://t.co/DYLj3oBDkg

    @NikolajSchlej

    10 Jun 2025

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