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CVE-2022-32482

ROUTINE

Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.

CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.

CVEs like this one computed, by meaning

What to do now held facts and links

  1. Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line, or later: inspiron 1.12.0; inspiron 1.13.0; inspiron 1.17.0; inspiron 1.18.0; inspiron 1.18.2; inspiron 1.19.0 upper bounds of the CVE record's affected ranges
  2. Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
  3. Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.

What it is stated by the CNA

Dell BIOS contains an improper input validation vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with admin privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability in order to modify a UEFI variable.

weakness
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
affected
Dell CPG BIOS
published ranges
dell alienware m15 r6 firmware < 1.17.0; dell alienware m15 r7 firmware < 1.10.0; dell chengming 3900 firmware < 1.7.3; dell g15 5510 firmware < 1.16.0; and 185 more on the CVE page
first unaffected version, by branch
inspiron 1.12.0; inspiron 1.13.0; inspiron 1.17.0; inspiron 1.18.0; inspiron 1.18.2; inspiron 1.19.0
severity
5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
assigned by
dell
published
2023-02-01

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Exploit code held, dated

exploit code
None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.

What moved held, dated

dateEPSSevent
1 Feb 20230.00885
7 Mar 20230.00042scoring model v2023.03.01
8 Mar 20230.00042
17 Mar 20250.00017scoring model v2025.03.14
27 Mar 20250.00018
29 Mar 20250.00023
30 Mar 20250.00018
12 Aug 20250.00019
27 Oct 20250.00021
18 Nov 20250.00047
21 Nov 20250.00021
28 Nov 20250.00023
2 Feb 20260.00026
9 Feb 20260.0013
11 Feb 20260.0005
15 Jun 20260.00162scoring model v2026.06.15

16 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.

Outside the record researched, cited

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What would change this brief held, dated

CISA KEV
Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
exploit probability
0.00 on 2026-06-15 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
fix
Held: inspiron 1.12.0; inspiron 1.13.0; inspiron 1.17.0; inspiron 1.18.0; inspiron 1.18.2; inspiron 1.19.0. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.

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How to check this

Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:

SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2022-32482', '2026-10-30T23:59:59.999999Z', now());