CVE-2023-42772
Untrusted pointer dereference in UEFI firmware for some Intel(R) reference processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.06%
- CWE
- CWE-822
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- n/a UEFI firmware for some Intel(R) reference processors
Weakness type
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