CVE-2021-38576

Summary

CVECVE-2021-38576
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-03 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-13 16:21:00 UTC
DescriptionA BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tianocore Edk2 201808 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 201811 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 201903 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 201905 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 201908 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 201911 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202002 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202005 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202008 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202011 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202102 All All All
Application Tianocore Edk2 202105 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug Access Denied MISC bugzilla.tianocore.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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