CVE-2008-7096: intel bios
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2008-7096 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in intel bios. EPSS estimates a 0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 27-08-2009PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.32%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
24%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.32% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Intel1 product
- biosdg33bu | dg33fb | dg33tl | dp35dp | dq35jo | dq35mp | dx38bt | mgm965tw
1 vendor · 1 product
References
7 links- invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdfX Refsource MISC
- security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-frX Refsource CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory