Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 16, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-18579
CVE-2019-18579
Description
Settings for the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) BIOS versions prior to 1.1.3 contain a configuration vulnerability. The BIOS configuration for the "Enable Thunderbolt (and PCIe behind TBT) pre-boot modules" setting is enabled by default. A local unauthenticated attacker with physical access to a user's system can obtain read or write access to main memory via a DMA attack during platform boot.
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Affected products
3- Range: <1.1.3
Patches
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References
1- www.dell.com/support/article/SLN319808nvdPatchVendor Advisory
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