vulnerability
Aruba AOS-8: CVE-2021-41839: SMM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NvmExpressDxe
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Feb 1, 2022 | Jan 14, 2025 | Apr 2, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 1, 2022
Added
Jan 14, 2025
Modified
Apr 2, 2026
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.
Solution
aruba-aos-8-cve-2021-41839
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