CVE-2022-27538

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Jan 30, 2023
Updated: Mar 27, 2025
Reserved: Mar 21, 2022

Description

A potential Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability has been identified in the BIOS for certain HP PC products which may allow arbitrary code execution, denial of service, and information disclosure. HP is releasing BIOS updates to mitigate the potential vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
HP PC BIOSHP Inc.	See HP Security Bulletin reference for affected versions.Affected

References

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_7387020-7387107-16/hpsbhf03827

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