vulnerability

Aruba AOS-CX: CVE-2020-27339: SMM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 1, 2022
Added
Feb 24, 2025
Modified
Apr 2, 2026

Description

In the kernel in Insyde InsydeH2O 5.x, certain SMM drivers did not correctly validate the CommBuffer and CommBufferSize parameters, allowing callers to corrupt either the firmware or the OS memory.

Solution

aruba-aos-cx-cve-2020-27339
Title
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