CVE-2022-40246 — Write-what-where Condition in Aptio
Severity
7.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 20
Latest updateSep 21
Description
A potential attacker can write one byte by arbitrary address at the time of the PEI phase (only during S3 resume boot mode) and influence the subsequent boot stages. This can lead to the mitigations bypassing, physical memory contents disclosure, discovery of any secrets from any Virtual Machines (VMs) and bypassing memory isolation and confidential computing boundaries. Additionally, an attacker can build a payload which can be injected into the SMRAM memory. This issue affects: Module name: Sb…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.5 | Impact: 6.0
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-jjpm-q6jh-v8gj: A potential attacker can write one byte by arbitrary address at the time of the PEI phase (only during S3 resume boot mode) and influence the subseque↗2022-09-21
CVEList▶
Arbitrary write vulnerability in SbPei module leads to arbitrary code execution during PEI phase.↗2022-09-20