CVE-2022-42285 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the NVIDIA DGX A100 SBIOS, specifically during the Pre-EFI Initialization (PEI) phase. A privileged local attacker can disable SPI flash protection, potentially leading to denial of service, escalation of privileges, or data tampering. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local privileges. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:sbios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.