US EditionMillions of Dell PCs with Broadcom Chips Open to Attack
WORLDWIDE, AUG 5 – Researchers found five critical firmware flaws in Broadcom chips affecting business-focused Dell laptops that allow data theft and persistent backdoors, with patches released since March 2025.
- Cisco Talos researchers found five vulnerabilities in Broadcom BCM5820X chips affecting more than 100 Dell laptop models, risking tens of millions of devices.
- The flaws reside in Dell ControlVault3’s firmware, which affects the Dell ControlVault hardware security component, with vulnerabilities in ControlVault3+ firmware as well.
- Demonstrating the exploit, Philippe Laulheret showed how CVE-2025-24919’s unsafe-deserialization in ControlVault’s Windows APIs allows backdoor implants and login bypasses.
- To date, Dell said it addressed the flaw quickly and transparently under its Vulnerability Response Policy, with no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation found.
- Amid the findings, Cisco highlighted importance of security from hardware to AI models, teaming up with Hugging Face to address AI supply chain risks.
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The "ReVault" gap collection makes numerous Dell laptop models vulnerable. The updates that have been available for a long time should be installed at the latest.
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