Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-30539

High

Published: 16 February 2023

Published
16 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-30539 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Intel Xeon Gold 5315Y Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

intel
xeon gold 5315y firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5317 firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5318n firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5318s firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5318y firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5320 firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 5320t firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 6312u firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 6314u firmware
all versions
intel
xeon gold 6326 firmware
all versions
+43 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References