Vulnerability · Published Oct 12, 2022 · Assigned by dell

CVE-2022-32493

Medium 6.0

In plain English

A medium-severity stack buffer overflow in CPG BIOS from Dell. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.0Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Dell BIOS contains an Stack-Based Buffer Overflow vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Dell CPG BIOS unspecified – before XPS 8940 BIOS (version: 2.5.1)

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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