Critical Security Flaw Found And Fixed In Millions Of Dell PCs, Update ASAP

If you're using a Dell PC, you need to update your firmware immediately. The Cisco Talos research team found five flaws affecting over 100 different Dell models. These vulnerabilities are severe and attackers can exploit them to access a victim's system even if the OS has been reinstalled.

The first two identified vulnerabilities are out-of-bounds read and write flaws, impacting the ControlVault (CV) firmware. These flaws are tracked as CVE-2025-24311 and CVE-2025-25050. A successful exploit of either of these flaws can enable attackers to access and even write data to memory.

Another vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-25215, and it also impacts the CV firmware. When exploited, malicious actors can manipulate memory on Dell PC systems for any purpose.

Two additional vulnerabilities uncovered are tracked as CVE-2025-24922 and CVE-2025-24919. Both of them impact the CV firmware as well. The first can enable attackers to use a malicious program to ...