Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2017-16837

Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

  • Published: Nov 16, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2017-16837
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
trusted_boot_project / trusted_boot 1.9.6 1.9.6.x