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CVE-2026-33197

CVE-2026-33197 — BDS Module Bypass Secure Boot Advisory

AMI APTIOV contains a vulnerability in BIOS where a privileged user may cause the “Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to arbitrary code execution and impact system Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

Published Updated Sources: NVD, AMI (CNA), GitHub, GitHub Security Advisory, SOCRadar CTI

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

0%

ahead of 0% of scored CVEs

Affects

AMI

AptioV

CVSS base

8.7

high

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

The vendor's own words where we have them.

Upgrade AptioV to a fixed release. Apply vendor patches per advisory and restrict external exposure of the affected component until patched.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record's own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found.

  • Identify exposed assets running affected vendor/product/version combinations.
  • Prioritize based on EPSS, PoC availability, and external exposure.
  • Search available logs for exploit probes, errors, authentication anomalies, or suspicious child processes matching the vulnerability class.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and version as the advisories word them.

VendorProductVersionsStatus
AMIAptioVAptioV_5.0Vulnerable

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack Complexity

Low

Attack Vector

Local

Privileges Req

High

User Interaction

None

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.7CVSS 4.0highAMI (CNA)

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

What this weakness leads to

MITRE's own consequences and mitigations for the weakness class — the authority's wording, not guidance derived from the CVSS vector.

MITRE

CWE-184 · Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

  • Bypass Protection Mechanism::

Mitigation: Do not rely exclusively on detecting disallowed inputs. There are too many variants to encode a character, especially when different environments are used, so there is a high likelihood of missing some variants. Only use detection of disallowed inputs as a mechanism for detecting suspicious activity. Ensure that you are using other protection mechanisms that only identify good input - such as lists of allowed inputs - and ensure that you are properly encoding your outputs.::

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-184

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

CAPEC-120 · Double EncodingCAPEC-15 · Command DelimitersCAPEC-182 · Flash InjectionCAPEC-3 · Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input FiltersCAPEC-43 · Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation LayersCAPEC-6 · Argument InjectionCAPEC-71 · Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation LogicCAPEC-73 · User-Controlled FilenameCAPEC-85 · AJAX Fingerprinting

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Repositories

1

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

  • Monitor for scanner or exploit-pattern traffic after 1 public PoC repositories were reported.

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first — with the readings a source repeats on a schedule counted underneath rather than listed.

  1. 2026
  2. Added · CVSS 3.1 8.7 (AV:L)

    Sep 8, 2026 · NVD

  3. Initial · CVE published

    Sep 8, 2026 · NVD

  4. Added · GHSA-r768-j77w-2vwm published (high)

    Sep 8, 2026 · GitHub Security Advisory

  5. CVE published by MITRE.

    Sep 8, 2026 · SOCRadar CTI

References

3 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.
Answered from this record1

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-33197 is BDS Module Bypass Secure Boot Advisory, a high vulnerability affecting AptioV from AMI. The current evidence does not list it in CISA KEV, and the exploit status is: Active exploitation is not confirmed from current sources for CVE-2026-33197. Public exploit evidence is: 1 public PoC repositories reported; 0 marked weaponized in current dataset. The affected-version evidence is listed in the key facts and affected products tables. Defenders should first verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run those versions, then apply vendor patches or mitigations, restrict reachable attack surface, and preserve logs for detection review. CVSS 8.7 describes technical severity, while EPSS 0% helps estimate near-term exploit likelihood; neither replaces asset context. Unknown fields should remain explicit in tickets, and threat actor, IOC, victimology, or payload claims should not be added unless a cited source supports them. Monitor CISA KEV, vendor advisories, NVD changes, public PoC repositories, and internal telemetry for update triggers.