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CVE-2008-7096
Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.32%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT allows local administrators with ring 0 privileges to gain additional privileges and modify code that is running in System Management Mode, or access hypervisory memory as demonstrated at Black Hat 2008 by accessing certain remapping registers in Xen 3.3.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30823 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- intel-bios-smm-privilege-escalation(44676) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 49901 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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