# CVE-2024-36877: Micro-Star International Z-series motherboards (Z590, Z490, and Z790) and B-series motherboards (B760, B560, B660, and B460) with firmware 7

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-08-12 · Updated: 2025-03-13

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Micro-Star International Z-series motherboards (Z590, Z490, and Z790) and B-series motherboards (B760, B560, B660, and B460) with firmware 7D25v14, 7D25v17 to 7D25v19, and 7D25v1A to 7D25v1H was discovered to contain a write-what-where condition in the in the SW handler for SMI 0xE3. Motherboard's with the following chipsets are affected: Intel 300, Intel 400, Intel 500, Intel 600, Intel 700, AMD 300, AMD 400, AMD 500, AMD 600 and AMD 700.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://csr.msi.com/global/product-security-advisories
- https://jjensn.com/at-home-in-your-firmware/
- https://github.com/CERTologists/POC-CVE-2024-36877
- https://github.com/jjensn/CVE-2024-36877

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