Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability.

published 2024-03-13 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-15961

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits: 0; none known

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to out-of-bound read/writes to SMRAM.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Dell PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G 1.2.3, 1.7.2, 1.7.6, 1.9.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.1, 2.0.0, 2.14.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-07-26)

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Dell PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

dell.com /support/kbdoc/en-us/000222812/dsa-2024-004-security-update-for-dell-poweredge-server-bios-for-an-improper-smm
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-0162
NVD CVE-2024-0162

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Summary