Dell PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G up to 2.14.0 toctou

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Dell PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G up to 2.14.0. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to toctou. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-0163. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Dell PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G up to 2.14.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a toctou vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-367. The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain a TOCTOU race condition vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.

The weakness was disclosed 03/13/2024 as dsa-2024-003. The advisory is available at dell.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-0163 since 12/14/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.2.3, 1.7.2, 1.7.6, 1.9.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.1, 2.0.0 or 2.14.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Dell

Name

• PowerEdge BIOS Intel 16G

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.9.0
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.14.0
• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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