HP Workstation PC BIOS privilege escalation

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6.7$5k-$25k0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in HP Workstation PC. Affected is an unknown function of the component BIOS. The manipulation leads to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-6138. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HP Workstation PC (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code of the component BIOS. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the system BIOS for certain HP Workstation PCs, which might allow escalation of privilege, arbitrary code execution, or denial of service. HP is releasing mitigation for the potential vulnerability.

The weakness was released 02/15/2024. The advisory is shared at support.hp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-6138 since 11/14/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/22/2025).

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: 6.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

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VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

11/14/2023 🔍
02/15/2024 +93 days 🔍
02/15/2024 +0 days 🔍
12/22/2025 +676 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: support.hp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-6138 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-6138
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-253901

Entryinfo

Created: 02/15/2024 08:32
Updated: 12/22/2025 20:00
Changes: 02/15/2024 08:32 (36), 12/22/2025 20:00 (26)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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