CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-41837

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

An issue was discovered in AhciBusDxe in InsydeH2O for kernels 5.0 through 5.5. An untrusted pointer dereference causes SMM memory corruption, allowing an attacker to write fixed or predictable data to SMRAM, potentially escalating privileges to SMM.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could write data to SMRAM, potentially leading to privilege escalation and SMM control.

Recommendation

Update InsydeH2O firmware to a patched version.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An issue was discovered in AhciBusDxe 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS