CVE-2021-26943 (GCVE-0-2021-26943)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-31 19:26 – Updated: 2024-08-03 20:33
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Summary
The UX360CA BIOS through 303 on ASUS laptops allow an attacker (with the ring 0 privilege) to overwrite nearly arbitrary physical memory locations, including SMRAM, and execute arbitrary code in the SMM (issue 3 of 3).
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CWE
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Date Public ?
2021-03-19 00:00
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