CVE-2024-0162 — Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an Improper SMM

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dell	PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G	N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-03-13T16:18:23.730Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-01T20:17:13.932Z

09References

• www.dell.com — https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000222812/dsa-2024-004-security-update-…