UEFI-Dumper

“UEFI-Dumper is a simple perl script to get access to your Insyde Bios hidden menus.”

The source code says: Copyright (c) 2013 Nurlan Mukhanov (aka Falseclock).

https://github.com/Falseclock/UEFI-dumper

The tool appears brand-new, from Github epoch. But given the 2013 date in the copyright, it is probably older. A quick search finds the same code from a 3-year-old post:
http://developers-club.com/posts/182676/

When I noticed this, I sent an FYI to the the UEFI Security team and to Insyde’s security team, in case they hadn’t seen it. Kevin Davis of Insyde responded with:

“Insyde Software takes the security of our customer’s platforms very seriously. InsydeH2O and SETUP page settings are based on public specifications.  Insyde is aware that the UEFI-Dumper allows individuals to get the information about SETUP pages that customers have hidden. Insyde believes that current customer platforms are following our guidelines for protecting sensitive system variables from malicious changes. As the first BIOS vendor to ship production systems supporting the UEFI standards, Insyde has always worked to improve the UEFI standards and our InsydeH2O BIOS.  Our customers are encouraged to work with their Insyde contacts to continue to build secure systems.”

[1] https://www.insyde.com/contact/reportsecurity

Spring Plugfest presentations uploaded

The PDFs of the presentations from last months’ UEFI Forum plugfest have been uploaded to uefi.org.

http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/presentationsandvideos
(scroll about half-way through the page, after the Youtube videos…)

* System Prep Applications – Powerful New Feature in UEFI 2.5 – Kevin Davis (Insyde Software)
* Filling UEFI/FW Gaps in the Cloud – Mallik Bulusu (Microsoft) and Vincent Zimmer (Intel)
* PreBoot Provisioning Solutions with UEFI – Zachary Bobroff (AMI)
* An Overview of ACPICA Userspace Tools – David Box (Intel)
* UEFI Firmware – Securing SMM – Dick Wilkins (Phoenix Technologies)
* Overview of Windows 10 Requirements for TPM, HVCI and SecureBoot – Gabe Stocco, Scott Anderson and Suhas Manangi (Microsoft)
* Porting a PCI Driver to ARM AArch64 Platforms – Olivier Martin (ARM)
* Firmware in the Data Center: Goodbye PXE and IPMI. Welcome HTTP Boot and Redfish! – Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Hewlett Packard)
* A Common Platforms Tree – Leif Lindholm (Linaro)

This’ll be a very short blog, as I’m busy reading 9 new PDFs… 🙂 I’ll do blogs on some these specific presentations in the coming days.