CVE-2023-20578 (GCVE-0-2023-20578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-13 16:52
Modified
2025-03-18 20:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
A TOCTOU (Time-Of-Check-Time-Of-Use) in SMM may allow
an attacker with ring0 privileges and access to the
BIOS menu or UEFI shell to modify the communications buffer potentially
resulting in arbitrary code execution.
References
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Impacted products
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