CVE-2020-5388: Dell Inspiron 15 7579 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell Inspiron 15 7579 2-in-1 BIOS versions prior to 1.31.0 contain an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

Affected products

• Dell Inspiron 15 7579 Firmware: before 1.31.0 (fixed in 1.31.0)

Published 2020-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.