{"id":151108,"date":"2022-11-25T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dell-hp-and-lenovo-devices-found-using-outdated-openssl-versions"},"modified":"2022-11-25T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T00:24:21","slug":"dell-hp-and-lenovo-devices-found-using-outdated-openssl-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dell-hp-and-lenovo-devices-found-using-outdated-openssl-versions","title":{"rendered":"Dell, HP, and Lenovo Devices Found Using Outdated OpenSSL Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dell-hp-and-lenovo-devices-found-using-outdated-openssl-versions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An analysis of firmware images across devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo has revealed the presence of outdated versions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/11\/just-in-openssl-releases-patch-for-2.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenSSL<\/a> cryptographic library, underscoring a supply chain risk.<\/p>\n<p>EFI Development Kit, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tianocore.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EDK<\/a>, is an open source implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UEFI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFI<\/a>), which functions as an interface between the operating system and the firmware embedded in the device\u2019s hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The firmware development environment, which is in its second iteration (EDK II), comes with its own cryptographic package called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tianocore\/edk2\/tree\/master\/CryptoPkg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CryptoPkg<\/a> that, in turn, makes use of services from the OpenSSL project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of firmware images across devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo has revealed the presence of outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library, underscoring a supply chain risk. EFI Development Kit, aka EDK, is an open source implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), which functions as an interface between the operating system [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}