CVE-2021-46757 (GCVE-0-2021-46757)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-13 19:23 – Updated: 2025-05-07 21:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Insufficient checking of memory buffer in ASP
Secure OS may allow an attacker with a malicious TA to read/write to the ASP
Secure OS kernel virtual address space potentially leading to privilege
escalation.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-14 15:34 UTC
CWE
- CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | AMD Ryzen™ Embedded 5000 |
Affected:
various
|
guessed | |
| AMD | AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 |
Affected:
various
|
guessed |
Date Public
2024-02-13 17:00
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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