{"id":219716,"date":"2025-08-09T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/revault-flaws-let-hackers-bypass-windows-login-on-dell-laptops"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:24:20","slug":"revault-flaws-let-hackers-bypass-windows-login-on-dell-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/revault-flaws-let-hackers-bypass-windows-login-on-dell-laptops","title":{"rendered":"ReVault flaws let hackers bypass Windows login on Dell laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revault-flaws-let-hackers-bypass-windows-login-on-dell-laptops.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls.<\/p>\n<p>Dell ControlVault is a hardware-based security solution that stores passwords, biometric data, and security codes within firmware on a dedicated daughterboard, known as the Unified Security Hub (USH).<\/p>\n<p>The five vulnerabilities, reported by Cisco\u2019s Talos security division and dubbed \u201c<strong>ReVault<\/strong>,\u201d affect both the ControlVault3 firmware and its Windows application programming interfaces (APIs) across Dell\u2019s business-focused Latitude and Precision laptop series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls. Dell ControlVault is a hardware-based security solution that stores passwords, biometric data, and security codes within firmware on a dedicated daughterboard, known as the Unified Security Hub (USH). The five vulnerabilities, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219716","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=219716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}