CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-42554

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

25th percentile - higher than 25% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in InsydeH2O with Kernel 5.0-5.5 involves SMM memory corruption in FvbServicesRuntimeDxe, allowing an attacker to write fixed or predictable data to SMRAM, potentially leading to privilege escalation to SMM.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could manipulate SMRAM memory, potentially leading to system compromise and firmware integrity violation.

Recommendation

Update InsydeH2O to a version that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An issue was discovered in Insyde InsydeH2O with Kernel 5.0 before 05.08.42, Kernel 5.1 before 05.16.42, Kernel 5.2 before 05.26.42, Kernel 5.3 before 05.35.42, Kernel 5.4 before 05.42.51, and Kernel 5.5 before 05.50.51. An SMM memory corruption vulnerability in FvbServicesRuntimeDxe allows a possible attacker 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