Vulnerability · Published Feb 3, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-43615
High 8.2
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in HddPassword in Insyde InsydeH2O with kernel 5.1 before 05.16.23, 5.2 before 05.26.23, 5.3 before 05.35.23, 5.4 before 05.43.22, and 5.5 before 05.51.22. An SMM memory corruption vulnerability allows an attacker to write fixed or predictable data to SMRAM. Exploiting this issue could lead to escalating privileges to SMM.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2022013 x_refsource_MISC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220216-0010/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-306654.pdf x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/796611
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-306654.html