A potential vulnerability in AMD System Management Mode (SMM) interrupt handler may allow an attacker with high privileges to access the SMM resulting in arbitrary code execution which could be used by malicious actors to bypass security mechanisms provided in the UEFI firmware.
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Description A potential vulnerability in AMD System Management Mode (SMM) interrupt handler may allow an attacker with high privileges to access the SMM resulting in arbitrary code execution which could be used by malicious actors to bypass security mechanisms provided in the UEFI firmware. A potential vulnerability in AMD System Management Mode (SMM) interrupt handler may allow an attacker with high privileges to access the SMM resulting in arbitrary code execution which could be used by malicious actors to bypass security mechanisms provided in the UEFI firmware.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: AMD

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T02:06:42.610Z

Reserved: 2021-08-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-39298

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-16T17:15:10.860

Modified: 2026-02-24T18:23:48.730

Link: CVE-2021-39298

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