CVE-2022-32493

State: Published
Severity: 6.0 Medium
Published: Oct 12, 2022
Updated: May 15, 2025
Reserved: Jun 6, 2022

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	dell

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CPG BIOSDell	before XPS 8940 BIOS (version: 2.5.1)Affected

References

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/000203758

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