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CVE-2022-22566

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-22566 is a pre-boot direct memory access (DMA) vulnerability affecting select Dell Client Commercial and Consumer platforms. An authenticated attacker with physical access can exploit this to execute arbitrary code, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While rated as high severity (CVSS 7.2), its exploitability requires physical access and prior authentication. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_area_51m_r1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_area_51m_r2_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_r3_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_r4_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_r6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.3
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
17.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 19 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

dell.com / support/kbdoc/en-us/000195905/dsa-2022-028
Vendor Advisory