HP PC BIOS May 2024 Security Updates for Potential Stack Buffer Overflows
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in the system BIOS for certain HP PC products which may allow escalation of privileges and code execution. HP is releasing firmware updates to mitigate the potential vulnerabilities.
- Published
- Jun 10, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 5th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-269
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Action score
27
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| hp | elite slice firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elite_slice_firmware |
| hp | elite slice | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elite_slice |
| hp | elite slice for meeting rooms firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elite_slice_for_meeting_rooms_firmware |
| hp | elite slice for meeting rooms | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elite_slice_for_meeting_rooms |
| hp | elitebook 1040 g3 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elitebook_1040_g3_firmware |
| hp | elitebook 1040 g3 | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elitebook_1040_g3 |
| hp | elitebook 820 g3 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elitebook_820_g3_firmware |
| hp | elitebook 820 g3 | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elitebook_820_g3 |
| hp | elitebook 828 g3 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elitebook_828_g3_firmware |
| hp | elitebook 828 g3 | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elitebook_828_g3 |
| hp | elitebook 840 g3 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:hp:elitebook_840_g3_firmware |
| hp | elitebook 840 g3 | cpe:2.3:h:hp:elitebook_840_g3 |
and 40 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- hp elite slice firmwarebefore 00.02.64
- hp elite slice for meeting rooms firmwarebefore 00.02.64
- hp elitebook 1040 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook 820 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook 828 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook 840 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook 848 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook 850 g3 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitebook folio g1 firmwarebefore 01.62
- hp elitedesk 800 35w g2 desktop mini pc firmwarebefore 00.02.63
- hp elitedesk 800 65w g2 desktop mini pc firmwarebefore 00.02.63
- hp mp9 g2 retail system firmwarebefore 02.63
- hp probook 440 g3 firmwarebefore 1.62
- hp probook 446 g3 firmwarebefore 1.62
- hp probook 470 g3 firmwarebefore 1.62
- hp probook 640 g2 firmwarebefore 1.62
- hp probook 650 g2 firmwarebefore 1.62
- hp rp9 g1 retail system firmwarebefore 02.64
- hp z2 mini g3 workstation firmwarebefore 01.91
- hp z238 microtower workstation firmwarebefore 01.91
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (hp). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
HP Inc. HP PC products
- See HP security bulletin reference for affected versionsaffected
Same product
hp: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2022-37020HP PC BIOS May 2024 Security Updates for Potential Stack Buffer Overflows27Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- low · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- Low
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege ManagementCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
nvd-secondary
Root cause
To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-269 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
kind: ClusterRolerules: - apiGroups: ["*"] resources: ["*"] verbs: ["*"]Fixed
kind: Rolemetadata: namespace: lodos-systemrules: - apiGroups: ["apps"] resources: ["deployments"] verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
We don't hand-write analysis for all 385,000+ vulnerabilities; that wouldn't be honest. For notable, high-impact vulnerabilities our team writes the mechanism, detection and remediation steps.
We use this product, ask for helpChange log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.