CVE-2022-37020
Published: 10 June 2024
Summary
CVE-2022-37020 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Hp Elite Slice Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 37.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-39677
Vulnerability details
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in the system BIOS for certain HP PC products, which might allow escalation of privileges and code execution. HP is releasing firmware updates to mitigate the potential vulnerabilities.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.