CVE-2022-32486: Dell BIOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell BIOS contains an improper input validation 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 BIOS: before 2.21.0 (fixed in 2.21.0); before 2.25.0 (fixed in 2.25.0)

Published 2022-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.