CVE-2022-34398

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Feb 1, 2023
Updated
Mar 26, 2025
Reserved
Jun 23, 2022

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Description

Dell BIOS contains a Time-of-check Time-of-use vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user could\u00a0potentially exploit this vulnerability by using a specifically timed DMA transaction during an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution on the system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hdell

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CPG BIOSDell
  • 2.15.0 and earlierAffected

References

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