CVE-2008-7096
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (25th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-7055)
- Published
- August 27, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-7055 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
- intel / bios
References
- http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf
- http://osvdb.org/49901
- http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30823
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44676
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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