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    CVE-2022-26006

    Improper input validation in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

    Published:Nov 11, 2022
    Last Modified:Feb 5, 2025
    EPS:Nov 11, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.00046
    CVSS Score:8.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I5-7640x
    Vendor
    Intel
    Product
    Core I5-7640x Firmware
    Vendor
    Intel
    Product
    Core I7-3820
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3820 Firmware
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3920xm
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3920xm Firmware
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3930k
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3930k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-3940xm
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3940xm Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-3960x
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3960x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-3970x
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-3970x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4820k
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-4820k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4930k
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-4930k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4930mx
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4930mx Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4940mx
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4940mx Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-4960x
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-4960x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-5820k
    Vendor
    Intel
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    Core I7-5820k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-5930k
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    Intel
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    Core I7-5930k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-5960x
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    Intel
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    Core I7-5960x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6800k
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6800k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6850k
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6850k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6900k
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6900k Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6950x
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    Intel
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    Core I7-6950x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-7740x
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    Intel
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    Core I7-7740x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I7-7800x
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    Core I7-7800x Firmware
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    Core I7-7820x
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    Core I7-7820x Firmware
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    Core I7-9800x
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    Core I7-9800x Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I9-10900x
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    Intel
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    Core I9-10900x Firmware
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    Core I9-10920x
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    Core I9-10920x Firmware
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    Core I9-10940x
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    Core I9-10940x Firmware
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    Core I9-10980xe
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    Intel
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    Core I9-10980xe Firmware
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    Intel
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    Core I9-7900x
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    Core I9-7900x Firmware
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    Core I9-7920x
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    Core I9-7920x Firmware
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    Core I9-7940x
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    Core I9-7960x
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    Core I9-7980xe
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    Core I9-9820x
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    Core I9-9900x
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    Core I9-9900x Firmware
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    Core I9-9920x
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    Core I9-9920x Firmware
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    Core I9-9940x
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    Core I9-9960x
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    Core I9-9980xe
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    Core I9-9980xe Firmware
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    Xeon E5-1428l V3
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    Xeon E5-1428l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-1620 V3
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    Xeon E5-1620 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-1620 V4
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    Xeon E5-1630 V3
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    Xeon E5-1630 V4
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    Xeon E5-1650 V3
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    Xeon E5-1650 V4
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    Xeon E5-1660 V3
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    Xeon E5-1660 V4
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    Xeon E5-1680 V3
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    Xeon E5-1680 V4
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    Xeon E5-1680 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2408l V3
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    Xeon E5-2408l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2418l V3
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    Xeon E5-2418l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2428l V3
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    Xeon E5-2428l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2438l V3
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    Xeon E5-2438l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2603 V3
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    Xeon E5-2603 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2603 V4
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    Xeon E5-2603 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2608l V3
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    Xeon E5-2608l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2608l V4
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    Xeon E5-2608l V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2609 V3
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    Xeon E5-2609 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2609 V4
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    Xeon E5-2609 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2618l V3
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    Xeon E5-2618l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2618l V4
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    Xeon E5-2620 V3
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    Xeon E5-2620 V4
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    Xeon E5-2623 V3
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    Xeon E5-2623 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2623 V4
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    Xeon E5-2623 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2628l V3
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    Xeon E5-2628l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2628l V4
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    Xeon E5-2628l V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2630 V3
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    Xeon E5-2630 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2630 V4
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    Xeon E5-2630 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2630l V3
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    Xeon E5-2630l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2630l V4
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    Xeon E5-2630l V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2637 V3
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    Xeon E5-2637 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2637 V4
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    Xeon E5-2637 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2640 V3
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    Xeon E5-2640 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2640 V4
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    Xeon E5-2640 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2643 V3
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    Xeon E5-2643 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2643 V4
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    Xeon E5-2643 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2648l V3
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    Xeon E5-2648l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2648l V4
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    Xeon E5-2648l V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2650 V3
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    Xeon E5-2650 V4
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    Xeon E5-2650l V3
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    Xeon E5-2650l V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2650l V4
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    Xeon E5-2650l V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2658 V3
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    Xeon E5-2658 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2658 V4
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    Xeon E5-2658 V4 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2658a V3
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    Xeon E5-2658a V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2660 V3
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    Xeon E5-2660 V4
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    Xeon E5-2667 V3
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    Xeon E5-2667 V4
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    Xeon E5-2670 V3
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    Xeon E5-2670 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2680 V3
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    Xeon E5-2680 V4
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    Xeon E5-2683 V3
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    Xeon E5-2683 V3 Firmware
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    Xeon E5-2683 V4
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    Xeon E5-2687w V3
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    Xeon E5-2687w V4
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    Xeon E5-2690 V3
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    Xeon E5-2690 V4
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    Xeon E5-2695 V3
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    Xeon E5-2695 V4
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    Xeon E5-2697 V3
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    Xeon E5-2697 V4
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    Xeon E5-2697a V4
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    Xeon E5-2698 V3
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    Xeon E5-2698 V4
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    Xeon E5-2699 V3
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    Xeon E5-2699 V4
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    Xeon E5-2699a V4
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    Xeon E5-2699r V4
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    Xeon E5-4610 V3
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    Xeon E5-4620 V3
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    Xeon E5-4627 V3
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    Xeon E5-4628l V4
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    Xeon E5-4640 V3
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    Xeon E5-4648 V3
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    Xeon E5-4655 V3
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    Xeon E5-4669 V3
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    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    CVE-2021-33123 (CVSS 7.8) — Improper access control in the BIOS authenticated code module for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privile…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High