Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-587

Allowed

Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer

Abstraction: Variant · Status: Draft

API response cwe.mitre.org

The product sets a pointer to a specific address other than NULL or 0.

2 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2021-28216 (GCVE-0-2021-28216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-05 20:44 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25
VLAI
Summary
BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-587 - A case of CWE-587 occurs in function FpdtStatusCodeListenerPei().
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TianoCore EDK II Affected: EDK II Master
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GHSA-6WGV-VJ43-RPR5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:10 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:30
VLAI
Details

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Mitigation
Implementation

Never set a pointer to a fixed address.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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