Intel UEFI Firmware Untrusted Pointer Deref Escalation
CVE-2023-42772 Published on September 16, 2024
Untrusted pointer dereference in UEFI firmware for some Intel(R) reference processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-42772 is exploitable with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Untrusted Pointer Dereference
The program obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-42772
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Exploit Probability
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