CVE-2021-41839

high

Description

An issue was discovered in NvmExpressDxe in the kernel 5.0 through 5.5 in Insyde InsydeH2O. Because of an Untrusted Pointer Dereference that causes SMM memory corruption, an attacker may be able to write fixed or predictable data to SMRAM. Exploiting this issue could lead to escalating privileges to SMM.

References

https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2022020

https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220217-0016/

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-306654.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-03

Updated: 2023-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High