NVIDIA DGX A100/DGX A800 SBIOS unnecessary privileges

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA DGX A100 and DGX A800 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component SBIOS. Such manipulation leads to unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-25521. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA DGX A100 and DGX A800 (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component SBIOS. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NVIDIA DGX A100/A800 contains a vulnerability in SBIOS where an attacker may cause execution with unnecessary privileges by leveraging a weakness whereby proper input parameter validation is not performed. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering.

The weakness was published 07/04/2023. The advisory is shared for download at nvidia.custhelp.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-25521 since 02/07/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Unnecessary privileges
CWE: CWE-250
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

02/07/2023 🔍
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07/22/2023 +18 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-25521 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-25521
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-232880

Entryinfo

Created: 07/04/2023 06:55
Updated: 07/22/2023 16:28
Changes: 07/04/2023 06:55 (46), 07/22/2023 16:28 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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