CVE-2019-18579

State
Published
Severity
7.6 High
Published
Dec 16, 2019
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Oct 29, 2019

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Description

Settings for the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) BIOS versions prior to 1.1.3 contain a configuration vulnerability. The BIOS configuration for the "Enable Thunderbolt (and PCIe behind TBT) pre-boot modules" setting is enabled by default. A local unauthenticated attacker with physical access to a user's system can obtain read or write access to main memory via a DMA attack during platform boot.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.6 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hdell

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CPG BIOSDell
  • before 1.1.3Affected

References

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