What is CVE-2024-0163?

CVE-2024-0163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell EMC Xc Core Xc450, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-0163?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Dell EMC Xc Core Xc450

CVE-2024-0163

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain a TOCTOU race condition vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain access to otherwise unauthorized resources.

Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)

Published 2024-03-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (1.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 1st percentile — 1.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000222756/dsa-2024-003-security-update-for-del… (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-0163?: CVE-2024-0163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dell EMC Xc Core Xc450, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-0163?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.