CVE-2022-34398 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Dell Alienware Area 51M R1 Firmware
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
CNA7.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 1
Description
Dell BIOS contains a Time-of-check Time-of-use vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user could\u00a0potentially exploit this vulnerability by using a specifically timed DMA transaction during an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution on the system.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9