Edk Ii
CVE-2019-0160
CRITICAL
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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1DescriptionNVD
Buffer overflow in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network access.
AnalysisAI
Buffer overflow in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network access. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Copy without Size Check (CWE-120), which allows attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory. Buffer overflow in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network access. Affected products include: Tianocore Edk Ii, Opensuse Leap, Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Always validate buffer sizes before copy operations. Use bounded functions (strncpy, snprintf). Enable compiler protections.
BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability i
Stack overflow in XHCI for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local ac
Same weakness CWE-120 – Classic Buffer Overflow
View allSame technique Privilege Escalation
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External POC / Exploit Code
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