{"cve":"CVE-2026-90137","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-17T17:17:06.287","modified":"2026-10-19T09:19:03.463","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix password encoding bounds check\n\nThe password PSWD_ENCODINGS parser reads password_obj[elem + pos_values]\nwhile copying the supported password encodings from the ACPI package.\n\nThe outer loop only guarantees that elem is within password_obj_count.\nThe encoding count is bounded by MAX_ENCODINGS_SIZE, but that does not\nguarantee that the ACPI package contains enough entries for all\nelem + pos_values accesses.\n\nA malformed package can therefore declare a non-zero encoding count\nwithout providing enough string objects, causing the parser to read past\nthe ACPI package array and pass an out-of-bounds string pointer and\nlength to hp_convert_hexstr_to_str().\n\nAdd the same computed-index bounds check used by the other offset-based\npackage parsing loops before reading password_obj[elem + pos_values].","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":7.7},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59fe8491ddaa03a510b352552e6ee291e7ce45d3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a7499b8fd34438c1b11964e0e7ef5bd590fec92","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ace1ba5fca0ab775b3641e154bcbc3ccde26a71a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c224759555a13735b0d67561d818cefe00c3309a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e213939ed9e6e6badf7aa48c4c8dd9a9cdf00615"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:55:23.253742848+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-90137","score":0.0018,"percentile":0.07513,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}