CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-40080
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Stack overflow vulnerability in Aspire E5-475G 's BIOS firmware, in the FpGui module, a second call to GetVariable services allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code in the UEFI DXE phase and gain escalated privileges.
Affected configurations
• acer aspire e5-475g firmware 1.21
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://acer.com/ Not Applicable
- https://github.com/10TG/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Acer/CVE-2022-40080/CVE-2022-40080.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://acer.com/ Not Applicable
- https://github.com/10TG/vulnerabilities/blob/main/Acer/CVE-2022-40080/CVE-2022-40080.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory