Vulnerability · Published May 12, 2022 · Assigned by AMD

CVE-2021-26317

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Athlon™ Series from AMD. 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 21% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Failure to verify the protocol in SMM may allow an attacker to control the protocol and modify SPI flash resulting in a potential arbitrary code execution.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
AMD Ryzen™ Series various
AMD Athlon™ Series various

References