CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-34390

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-10-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-457, CWE-908

Description

Dell BIOS contains a use of uninitialized variable vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

Affected configurations

• dell alienware area-51 r5 firmware (< 2.0.6) • dell alienware area-51 r4 firmware (< 2.0.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-457 Use of Uninitialized Variable weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References