🛡️ CVE-2023-28075 — alienware-m15-r7-firmware

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Physical — the attacker has to touch the device.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-28075 is classified as CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition. The state checked and the state acted upon can differ, because it may change between the two steps.

Affected software

CVE-2023-28075 is recorded against 242 packages.

• alienware-m15-r7-firmware (fixed in 1.18.0)
• alienware-m16-firmware (fixed in 1.10.1)
• alienware-m18-firmware (fixed in 1.10.1)
• chengming-3900-firmware (fixed in 1.15.0)
• chengming-3901-firmware (fixed in 1.15.0)
• chengming-3910-firmware (fixed in 1.6.0)
• chengming-3911-firmware (fixed in 1.6.0)
• chengming-3980-firmware (fixed in 2.32.0)
• chengming-3990-firmware (fixed in 1.21.0)
• chengming-3991-firmware (fixed in 1.21.0)
• edge-gateway-3000-firmware (fixed in 1.13.0)
• edge-gateway-5000-firmware (fixed in 1.23.0)
• embedded-box-pc-3000-firmware (fixed in 1.19.0)
• embedded-box-pc-5000-firmware (fixed in 1.20.0)
• g15-5520-firmware (fixed in 1.18.0)
• g16-7620-firmware (fixed in 1.18.0)
• g3-3500-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g5-15-5500-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g5-15-5590-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g7-15-7500-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g7-15-7590-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g7-17-7700-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• g7-17-7790-firmware (fixed in 1.26.0)
• inspiron-14-5410-firmware (fixed in 2.20.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

alienware-m15-r7-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-29988 (6.9 Medium, published 9 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-52541 (8.2 High, published 19 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2023-43078 (6.7 Medium, published 28 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-0158 (5.1 Medium, published 2 Jul 2024)
• CVE-2024-22448 (4.7 Medium, published 10 Apr 2024)
• CVE-2023-28063 (6.7 Medium, published 6 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2023-32453 (4.6 Medium, published 16 Aug 2023)
• CVE-2023-28059 (5.1 Medium, published 23 Jun 2023)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition) in other software:

• CVE-2022-23563 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-23826 (published 15 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-26522 (7.8 High, published 8 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-27540 (7.8 High, published 28 Jun 2024)
• CVE-2022-23181 (8.0 High, published 6 Mar 2024)
• CVE-2022-23084 (7.5 High, published 15 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2022-24351 (4.7 Medium, published 16 Dec 2023)
• CVE-2022-31636 (7.8 High, published 13 Jun 2023)

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