EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3116 advisory.

    EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause Exposure of Sensitive Information to an     Unauthorized Actor by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible     information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality. (CVE-2024-38798)

    EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause  Improper Input Validation by local     access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could alter control flow in unexpected ways,     potentially allowing arbitrary command execution and impacting Confidentiality, Integrity, and     Availability. (CVE-2025-2296)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0967 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2025-2296:
    EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause  Improper Input Validation by     local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could alter control flow in unexpected ways,     potentially allowing arbitrary command execution and impacting Confidentiality, Integrity, and     Availability.

    CVE-2024-38798:
    EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause Exposure of Sensitive Information to     an Unauthorized Actor by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to

    possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege

     and impact Confidentiality.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause Exposure of Sensitive Information to an     Unauthorized Actor by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible     information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality. (CVE-2024-38798)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
281799	Amazon Linux 2 : edk2, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3116 (ALAS-2025-3116)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
279659	TencentOS Server 4: edk2 (TSSA-2025:0967)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
278014	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-38798	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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CVE-2024-38798

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