CVE-2022-34390: Dell Alienware Area-51 r4 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell BIOS contains a use of uninitialized variable 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 Alienware Area-51 r4 Firmware: before 2.0.6 (fixed in 2.0.6)
• Dell Alienware Area-51 r5 Firmware: before 2.0.6 (fixed in 2.0.6)

Published 2022-10-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.