CVE-2022-34398: Dell Alienware Area 51m r1 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell BIOS contains a Time-of-check Time-of-use vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user could\u00a0potentially exploit this vulnerability by using a specifically timed DMA transaction during an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution on the system.

Affected products

  • Dell Alienware Area 51m r1 Firmware: before 1.22.2 (fixed in 1.22.2)
  • Dell Alienware Area 51m r2 Firmware: before 1.19.0 (fixed in 1.19.0)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r10 Firmware: before 2.3.2 (fixed in 2.3.2)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r11 Firmware: before 1.0.17 (fixed in 1.0.17)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r12 Firmware: before 1.1.17 (fixed in 1.1.17)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r13 Firmware: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r8 Firmware: before 1.0.26 (fixed in 1.0.26)
  • Dell Alienware Aurora r9 Firmware: before 1.0.22 (fixed in 1.0.22)
  • Dell Alienware m15 r1 Firmware: before 2.15.0 (fixed in 2.15.0)
  • Dell Alienware m15 r2 Firmware: before 1.18.3 (fixed in 1.18.3)
  • Dell Alienware m15 r3 Firmware: before 1.20.0 (fixed in 1.20.0)
  • Dell Alienware m15 r4 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
  • Dell Alienware m17 r1 Firmware: before 2.15.0 (fixed in 2.15.0)
  • Dell Alienware m17 r2 Firmware: before 1.18.3 (fixed in 1.18.3)
  • Dell Alienware m17 r3 Firmware: before 1.20.0 (fixed in 1.20.0)
  • Dell Alienware m17 r4 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
  • Dell Alienware x14 Firmware: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)
  • Dell Alienware x15 r1 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
  • Dell Alienware x15 r2 Firmware: before 1.8.2 (fixed in 1.8.2)
  • Dell Alienware x17 r1 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
  • Dell Alienware x17 r2 Firmware: before 1.8.2 (fixed in 1.8.2)
  • Dell Aurora r14 Firmware: before 2.5.0 (fixed in 2.5.0)
  • Dell Chengming 3980 Firmware: before 2.26.0 (fixed in 2.26.0)
  • Dell Chengming 3988 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
  • Dell Chengming 3990 Firmware: before 1.16.2 (fixed in 1.16.2)
  • and 214 more

Published 2023-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.