CVE-2021-46795 (GCVE-0-2021-46795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-10 20:53 – Updated: 2025-04-09 15:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) vulnerability exists where an attacker may use a compromised BIOS to cause the TEE OS to read memory out of bounds that could potentially result in a denial of service.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-09 15:13 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | Ryzen 5000 Series |
Affected:
various
|
guessed | |
| AMD | Ryzen 3000 Series |
Affected:
various
|
guessed |
Date Public
2023-01-10 17:30
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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