CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-0171

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

Published: Jun 25, 2024 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS contains an 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_r6615_firmware Dell * 1.8.3 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References