CVE-2019-18579highCWE-16

CVE-2019-18579: high-severity vulnerability in Dell CPG BIOS

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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.6epss 0.3%
Settings for the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) BIOS versions prior to 1.1.3 contain a configuration vulnerability. The BIOS configuration for the "Enable Thunderbolt (and PCIe behind TBT) pre-boot modules" setting is enabled by default. A local unauthenticated attacker with physical access to a user's system can obtain read or write access to main memory via a DMA attack during platform boot.
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Dell · CPG BIOS