CVE-2021-43615

high

Description

An issue was discovered in HddPassword in Insyde InsydeH2O with kernel 5.1 before 05.16.23, 5.2 before 05.26.23, 5.3 before 05.35.23, 5.4 before 05.43.22, and 5.5 before 05.51.22. An SMM memory corruption vulnerability allows an attacker 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-2022013

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

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220216-0010/

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-03

Updated: 2022-03-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

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