Security Resilience

CVE-2024-0154

Memory Safety in Dell Poweredge R660 Firmware ≤ 2.0.0

Published
13 March 2024
Modified
31 January 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 3.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0020 10th percentile
Risk Priority 30 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-0154 is a low-severity Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CWE-788) vulnerability in Dell Poweredge R660 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 3.8 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked at the 10th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an improper parameter initialization vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read the contents of non-SMM stack memory.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001 Data Obfuscation Command And Control
Adversaries may obfuscate command and control traffic to make it more difficult to detect.
T1001.001 Junk Data Command And Control
Adversaries may add junk data to protocols used for command and control to make detection more difficult.
T1001.002 Steganography Command And Control
Adversaries may use steganographic techniques to hide command and control traffic to make detection efforts more difficult.
T1003.002 Security Account Manager Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to extract credential material from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database either through in-memory techniques or through the Windows Registry where the SAM database is stored.
T1003.003 NTDS Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access or create a copy of the Active Directory domain database in order to steal credential information, as well as obtain other information about domain members such as devices, users, and access rights.
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

dell
poweredge r660 firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge r760 firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge c6620 firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge mx760c firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge r860 firmware
≤ 1.8.0
dell
poweredge r960 firmware
≤ 1.8.0
dell
poweredge hs5610 firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge hs5620 firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge r660xs firmware
≤ 2.0.0
dell
poweredge r760xs firmware
≤ 2.0.0
+114 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.4.1

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation can discover buffer-end violations through static analysis, fuzzing, or dynamic bounds checks.

Security engineering principles require bounds checking, safe arithmetic, and language choices that structurally eliminate post-end buffer accesses.

Process isolation confines the effects of an out-of-bounds read to the compromised process.

Input validation enforces bounds on lengths and indices before buffer operations, stopping out-of-bounds accesses after the end of the buffer.

Memory protection mechanisms limit the effects of post-end buffer accesses by blocking unauthorized code execution or data corruption.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

ID.RA-01 partial match
blocks

Vulnerability scanning and recording can discover instances of out-of-bounds reads after code is deployed.

PR.PS-02 partial match
blocks

Routine patching replaces vulnerable code containing out-of-bounds read flaws.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly require bounds checking and input validation that prevent out-of-bounds buffer accesses.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

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References