CVE-2022-34399: Dell Alienware m17 R5 BIOS version prior to 1.2.2 contain a buffer access vulnerability.
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 9/100)
- 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: 0.18% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
- Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 5.1, NVD 2.3.
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
Dell Alienware m17 R5 BIOS version prior to 1.2.2 contain a buffer access vulnerability. A malicious user with admin privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending input larger than expected in order to leak certain sections of SMRAM.
- Published
- Jan 18, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 8th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-805
Report tools
Action score
9
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 9 / 40 · 2.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 2.3
- CNA · dell
- 5.1
- 2.8 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| dell | alienware m15 a6 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_a6_firmware |
| dell | alienware m15 a6 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:alienware_m15_a6 |
| dell | alienware m15 ryzen edition r5 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_ryzen_edition_r5_firmware |
| dell | alienware m15 ryzen edition r5 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:alienware_m15_ryzen_edition_r5 |
| dell | alienware m17 ryzen edition r5 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m17_ryzen_edition_r5_firmware |
| dell | alienware m17 ryzen edition r5 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:alienware_m17_ryzen_edition_r5 |
| dell | g15 5515 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:g15_5515_firmware |
| dell | g15 5515 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:g15_5515 |
| dell | g15 5525 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:g15_5525_firmware |
| dell | g15 5525 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:g15_5525 |
| dell | inspiron 3505 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:dell:inspiron_3505_firmware |
| dell | inspiron 3505 | cpe:2.3:h:dell:inspiron_3505 |
and 18 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- dell alienware m15 a6 firmwarebefore 1.4.3
- dell alienware m15 ryzen edition r5 firmwarebefore 1.8.0
- dell alienware m17 ryzen edition r5 firmwarebefore 1.4.3
- dell g15 5515 firmwarebefore 1.8.0
- dell g15 5525 firmwarebefore 1.4.3
- dell inspiron 3505 firmwarebefore 1.9.0
- dell inspiron 3515 firmwarebefore 1.9.0
- dell inspiron 3525 firmwarebefore 1.5.0
- dell inspiron 3585 firmwarebefore 1.10.0
- dell inspiron 3595 firmwarebefore 1.5.0
- dell inspiron 3785 firmwarebefore 1.10.0
- dell vostro 3405 firmwarebefore 1.9.0
- dell vostro 3425 firmwarebefore 1.5.0
- dell vostro 3515 firmwarebefore 1.9.0
- dell vostro 3525 firmwarebefore 1.5.0
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
- before 1.2.2affected
Same product
dell: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2022-34401
Dell BIOS contains a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability.30Monitor
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
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.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
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.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-805 · Buffer Access with Incorrect Length ValueCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Change 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.