CVE-2022-34401

HIGH

Dell Alienware M15 A6, M17 R5, G15 5525 Firmware < 1.4.3 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow via SMI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Dell BIOS contains a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to send larger than expected input to a parameter in order to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/000204679

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-121 CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
dell/alienware_m15_a6_firmware < 1.4.3
dell/alienware_m17_r5_firmware < 1.4.3
dell/g15_5525_firmware < 1.4.3
Published Jan 18, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026