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CVE-2022-42273 (GCVE-0-2022-42273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-12 22:17 – Updated: 2025-04-07 19:46
VLAI
Summary
NVIDIA BMC contains a vulnerability in libwebsocket, where an authorized attacker can cause a buffer overflow and cause a denial of service or gain code execution.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-07 19:45 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NVIDIA NVIDIA DGX servers Affected: All BMC firmware versions prior to 00.19.07
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