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CVE-2022-29083: Prior Dell BIOS versions contain an Improper Authentication vulnerability.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.37% (FIRST EPSS).
Physical access to the device is required. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Prior Dell BIOS versions contain an Improper Authentication vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with physical access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability by bypassing drive security mechanisms in order to gain access to the system.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Auth bypass

Published: Aug 9, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 30th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 6.8
CNA · dell: 6.8; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
dell	chengming 3980 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3980_firmware
dell	chengming 3980	cpe:2.3:h:dell:chengming_3980
dell	chengming 3990 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3990_firmware
dell	chengming 3990	cpe:2.3:h:dell:chengming_3990
dell	chengming 3991 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3991_firmware
dell	chengming 3991	cpe:2.3:h:dell:chengming_3991
dell	g3 3579 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:g3_3579_firmware
dell	g3 3579	cpe:2.3:h:dell:g3_3579
dell	g3 3779 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:g3_3779_firmware
dell	g3 3779	cpe:2.3:h:dell:g3_3779
dell	g5 5587 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:dell:g5_5587_firmware
dell	g5 5587	cpe:2.3:h:dell:g5_5587

and 188 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

dell chengming 3980 firmwarebefore 2.23.0
dell chengming 3990 firmwarebefore 1.11.0
dell chengming 3991 firmwarebefore 1.11.0
dell g3 3579 firmwarebefore 1.21.0
dell g3 3779 firmwarebefore 1.21.0
dell g5 5000 firmwarebefore 1.7.0
dell g5 5090 firmwarebefore 1.14.0
dell g5 5587 firmwarebefore 1.21.0
dell g7 7588 firmwarebefore 1.21.0
dell inspiron 3470 firmwarebefore 2.23.0
dell inspiron 3480 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3493 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3501 firmwarebefore 1.11.0
dell inspiron 3580 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3593 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3670 firmwarebefore 2.23.0
dell inspiron 3780 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3790 firmwarebefore 1.16.0
dell inspiron 3793 firmwarebefore 1.19.0
dell inspiron 3880 firmwarebefore 1.11.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (dell). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Dell CPG BIOS
- unspecified and later · before 9-12affected

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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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

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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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

Physical access to the device is required.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Physical
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/000201396

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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