SB2023070409 - Multiple vulnerabilities in NVIDIA DGX A100 and DGX A800
Published: July 4, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Execution with unnecessary privileges (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25521)
CWE-ID: CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of an input parameter in SBIOS. A local administrator can run the affected binary and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25522)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in SBIOS. A local administrator can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.