CVE-2022-42285 (GCVE-0-2022-42285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-13 01:48 – Updated: 2025-04-07 18:03
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Summary
DGX A100 SBIOS contains a vulnerability in the Pre-EFI Initialization (PEI)phase, where a privileged user can disable SPI flash protection, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, or data tampering.
Severity ?
6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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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