CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-0163

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Mar 13, 2024 | Modified: Jan 31, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain a TOCTOU race condition vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Poweredge_r660_firmware Dell * 2.0.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References