# CVE-2025-29988: Memory corruption in Dell Client Platform BIOS

> A local high-privileged attacker can exploit a stack-based buffer overflow in Dell Client Platform BIOS to execute arbitrary code.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3pqf-w7fm-5f4w

## What is CVE-2025-29988?

CVE-2025-29988 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Dell Inspiron 3501 Firmware, published on 9 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Dell Client Platform BIOS contains a Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-121 (Stack-based Buffer Overflow)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-29988?

It affects 261 products.


Products: Dell 14 Plus 2-in-1 Db04250 Firmware, Dell 14 Plus Db14250 Firmware, Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 Db06250 Firmware, Dell 16 Plus Db16250 Firmware, Dell 24 All-in-One Ec24250 Firmware, Dell 27 All-in-One Ec27250 Firmware, Dell Alienware Area-51 Aat2250 Firmware, Dell Alienware Aurora Act1250 Firmware, Dell Alienware M15 R6 Firmware, Dell Alienware M15 R7 Firmware, Dell Alienware M16 R1 Firmware, Dell Alienware M16 R2 Firmware, Dell Alienware M18 R1 Firmware, Dell Alienware M18 R2 Firmware, Dell Alienware X14 R2 Firmware, Dell Alienware X16 R1 Firmware, Dell Alienware X16 R2 Firmware, Dell Chengming 3900 Firmware, Dell Chengming 3910 Firmware, Dell Chengming 3911 Firmware and 241 more.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-29988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-29988 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-29988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-29988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2025-29988 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-29988 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Dell Inspiron 3501 Firmware, published on 9 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-29988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell Inspiron 3501 Firmware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-29988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-29988/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-29988
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29988
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29988

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-29988/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.