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CVE-2022-37018: A potential vulnerability has been identified in the system BIOS for certain HP PC products which may allow escalation of privileges and cod

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 33/100)

  • 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: 0.24% (FIRST EPSS).
  • 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.
  • 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

A potential vulnerability has 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 vulnerability.

HighCVSS 8.4 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 12, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 15th percentile

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Action score

33

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
33 / 40 · 8.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
hpprodesk 400 g3 dm
hpz1 g3 firmware
hpz1 g3
hpz2 mini g3 firmware
hpz2 mini g3
hpz238 microtower firmware
hpz238 microtower
hpz240 sff firmware
hpz240 sff
hpz240 tower firmware
hpz240 tower
hpengage one aio system firmware

and 138 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 02.59
  • hp elite x2 1012 g1 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elite x2 1012 g2 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 1030 g1 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 1040 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 1040 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 820 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 820 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 828 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 828 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 840 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 840 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 848 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 848 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook 850 g3 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook 850 g4 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook folio g1 firmwarebefore 01.58
  • hp elitebook x360 1020 g2 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitebook x360 1030 g2 firmwarebefore 01.44
  • hp elitedesk 800 35w g2 desktop mini pc firmwarebefore 02.59

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 BIOS

    • See HP Security Bulletin reference for affected versions.affected

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.

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 researchers

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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

  • 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
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions

CVSS vector

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

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.

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.

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