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CVE-2021-41839

Insyde Insydeh2o

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.

Exploitation status

  • A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.

What the metrics mean

  • It is requires local access to the machine.
  • For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
  • To exploit it, an administrative account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
8.2 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-119
Assigned by
cve@mitre.org

Dates

Published
2022-02-03
Last modified
2026-08-11
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Insyde Insydeh2o5.1 - 5.16.25, 5.2 - 5.26.25, 5.3 - 5.35.25, 5.4 - 5.43.25, 5.5 - 5.51.25

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References