CVE-2022-42281 (GCVE-0-2022-42281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-13 01:37 – Updated: 2025-04-07 18:47
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Summary
NVIDIA DGX A100 contains a vulnerability in SBIOS in the FsRecovery, which may allow a highly privileged local attacker to cause an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, compromised integrity, and information disclosure.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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NVIDIA NVIDIA DGX servers Affected: All SBIOS firmware versions prior to 1.18
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