An issue was discovered in NvmExpressDxe 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-02-03T01:37:10.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T19:12:36.407Z

Reserved: 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-41839

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-03T02:15:07.123

Modified: 2025-11-04T20:16:01.230

Link: CVE-2021-41839

cve-icon Redhat

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