cvelistv5 - CVE-2020-5388

CVE-2020-5388

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-11-10 14:50

Modified

2024-09-16 22:31

Severity ?

6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Dell Inspiron 15 7579 2-in-1 BIOS versions prior to 1.31.0 contain an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	security_alert@emc.com	https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln322869/dsa-2020-215-dell-inspiron-15-7579-2-in-1-improper-smm-communication-buffer-boundary-verification-vulnerability	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Dell	CPG BIOS

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