CVE-2023-28052: Dell Alienware Area 51m r1 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell BIOS contains an improper input validation vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with administrator privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability in order to modify a UEFI variable.

Affected products

Dell Alienware Area 51m r1 Firmware: before 1.26.0 (fixed in 1.26.0)
Dell Alienware Area 51m r2 Firmware: before 1.22.0 (fixed in 1.22.0)
Dell Alienware Aurora r11 Firmware: before 1.0.20 (fixed in 1.0.20)
Dell Alienware Aurora r12 Firmware: before 1.1.20 (fixed in 1.1.20)
Dell Alienware Aurora r13 Firmware: before 1.12.0 (fixed in 1.12.0)
Dell Alienware Aurora r15 Firmware: before 1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r2 Firmware: before 1.22.0 (fixed in 1.22.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r3 Firmware: before 1.23.0 (fixed in 1.23.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r4 Firmware: before 1.17.0 (fixed in 1.17.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r6 Firmware: before 1.21.0 (fixed in 1.21.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r7 Firmware: before 1.16.0 (fixed in 1.16.0)
Dell Alienware m16 Firmware: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r2 Firmware: before 1.22.0 (fixed in 1.22.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r3 Firmware: before 1.23.0 (fixed in 1.23.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r4 Firmware: before 1.17.0 (fixed in 1.17.0)
Dell Alienware x14 Firmware: before 1.12.0 (fixed in 1.12.0)
Dell Alienware x15 r1 Firmware: before 1.18.0 (fixed in 1.18.0)
Dell Alienware x15 r2 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Alienware x17 r1 Firmware: before 1.18.0 (fixed in 1.18.0)
Dell Alienware x17 r2 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Chengming 3900 Firmware: before 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.11.0)
Dell Chengming 3901 Firmware: before 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.11.0)
Dell Chengming 3910 Firmware: before 1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.0)
Dell Chengming 3911 Firmware: before 1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.0)
Dell Chengming 3980 Firmware: before 2.29.0 (fixed in 2.29.0)
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Published 2023-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.