CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.
CVE
CVE-2019-18579
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
0.34%
Original NVD Description
Settings for the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) BIOS versions prior to 1.1.3 contain a configuration vulnerability. The BIOS configuration for the "Enable Thunderbolt (and PCIe behind TBT) pre-boot modules" setting is enabled by default. A local unauthenticated attacker with physical access to a user's system can obtain read or write access to main memory via a DMA attack during platform boot.
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