Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in AhciBusDxe in Insyde InsydeH2O

Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in AhciBusDxe in Insyde InsydeH2O

CVE-2021-41837 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue was discovered in AhciBusDxe in the kernel 5.0 through 5.5 in Insyde InsydeH2O. Because of an Untrusted Pointer Dereference that causes SMM memory corruption, an attacker may be able to write fixed or predictable data to SMRAM. Exploiting this issue could lead to escalating privileges to SMM.

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