CVE-2022-26859 is a race condition vulnerability in Dell BIOS that allows a local attacker to bypass security checks during System Management Mode (SMM) by sending malicious System Management Interrupt (SMI) input. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.0 due to its high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring low privileges and having high attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:alienware_m15_r6_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.21.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3980_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3988_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3990_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:chengming_3991_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.