Security Bulletin: NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 - February 2024

Updated 02/08/2024 07:34 PM

NVIDIA has released a firmware security update for the NVIDIA DGX™ Station A100 and DGX™ Station A800 systems.

To protect your system, download and install this firmware update through the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal.

Go to NVIDIA Product Security.


Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE‑2022‑42271 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 baseboard management controller (BMC) contains a vulnerability in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) handler, where an attacker with the required privileges can cause a buffer overflow, which may lead to denial of service or code execution. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 8.4 High CWE-120 Denial of service, code execution
CVE‑2022‑42272 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an attacker with the required privileges can cause a buffer overflow, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, or escalation of privileges. AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 8.1 High CWE-120 Denial of service, code execution, escalation of privileges
CVE‑2022‑42273 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in libwebsocket, where an attacker with the required privileges can cause a buffer overflow, which may lead to denial of service or code execution. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 8.1 High CWE-120 Denial of service, code execution
CVE‑2022‑42274 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an attacker with the required privileges can cause a buffer overflow, which may lead to denial of service or code execution. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.8 High CWE-120 Denial of service, code execution
CVE‑2022‑42275 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an unauthenticated host is allowed to write to a host SPI flash, bypassing secure boot protections. An exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of integrity or denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H 7.7 High CWE-120 Denial of service, integrity loss
CVE-2023-31032 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 SBIOS contains a vulnerability where a user may cause a dynamic variable evaluation by local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service. AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.5 High CWE-627 Denial of service
CVE‑2023‑25521 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 SBIOS contains a vulnerability where improper validation of an input parameter may lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering. AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.5 High CWE-250 Code execution, escalation of privileges, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42279 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the SPX REST API, where an attacker with the required privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, or data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.2 High CWE-78 Code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42289 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the SPX REST API, where an attacker with the required privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, or data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.2 High CWE-78 Code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42290 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the SPX REST API, where an attacker with the required privileges can inject arbitrary shell commands, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, or data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.2 High CWE-78 Code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42280 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the SPX REST authorization handler, where an unauthorized attacker can exploit a path traversal, which may lead to escalation of privileges. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 7.1 High CWE-22 Escalation of privileges
CVE-2023-31034 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 SBIOS contains a vulnerability where a local attacker can cause input validation checks to be bypassed by causing an integer overflow. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering. AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H 6.6 Medium CWE-190 Denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42282 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the SPX REST API, where an attacker with the required privileges can access arbitrary files, which may lead to information disclosure. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 6.5 Medium CWE-22 Information disclosure
CVE‑2022‑42283 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an attacker with the required privileges can cause a buffer overflow, which may lead to denial of service or code execution. AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 6.4 Medium CWE-120 Denial of service, code execution
CVE‑2022‑42284 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC stores user passwords in an obfuscated form in a database accessible by the host, which may lead to exposure of user credentials. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 6.2 Medium CWE-312 Credential exposure
CVE‑2022‑42287 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an attacker can upload and download arbitrary files under certain circumstances, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering. AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 6.0 Medium CWE-22 Denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2022‑42288 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 BMC contains a vulnerability in the IPMI handler, where an unauthorized attacker can use certain oracles to guess a valid BMC username, which may lead to information disclosure. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N 5.3 Medium CWE-208 Information disclosure
CVE-2023-31031 NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 SBIOS contains a vulnerability where a user may cause a heap-based buffer overflow by local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering. AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L 4.2 Medium CWE-122 Code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends evaluating the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the NVIDIA products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

Note: To get the updated BMC and SBIOS versions listed in the table, upgrade to the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 and DGX Station A800 Firmware Update Container Version 24.1.1. Firmware updates are available through the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal.

CVE IDs Addressed Affected Products Platform or OS Affected Versions Updated Version
CVE‑2022‑42271
CVE‑2022‑42272
CVE‑2022‑42273
CVE‑2022‑42274
CVE‑2022‑42275
CVE‑2022‑42279
CVE‑2022‑42280
CVE‑2022‑42282
CVE‑2022‑42283
CVE‑2022‑42284
CVE‑2022‑42287
CVE‑2022‑42288
CVE‑2022‑42289
CVE‑2022‑42290
NVIDIA DGX Servers
DGX Station A100
DGX Station A800
All BMC firmware versions prior to 2.09.00 BMC Firmware 2.09.00
CVE‑2023‑25521
CVE‑2023‑31031
CVE‑2023‑31032
CVE‑2023‑31034
NVIDIA DGX Servers
DGX Station A100
DGX Station A800
All SBIOS firmware versions prior to 10.20 SBIOS Firmware 10.20

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 February 8, 2024 Initial release

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