CVE-2016-2243
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS...
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS recovery failure) by leveraging administrative access.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS recovery failure) by leveraging administrative access.
- Record
CVE-2016-2243- CVSS 3.0
- 7.9 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 5.4 Medium
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-284
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS recovery failure) by leveraging administrative access.
- Record
CVE-2016-2243- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-3327 No score
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS recovery failure) by leveraging administrative access.
- Record
EUVD-2016-3327- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-h8g3-63cv-v336
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS...
Sure Start on HP Commercial PCs 2015 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BIOS recovery failure) by leveraging administrative access.
- Record
GHSA-h8g3-63cv-v336- CVSS 3.0
- 7.9 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-284
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2016-2243 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.9) in Hp 1000 Series Firmware, published March 4, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, the 36th percentile. No source names a fixed version.