CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-0159
High (7.8) in intel. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Improper input validation in the BIOS authenticated code module for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable aescalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- intel:xeon_bronze_3204_firmware
- intel:xeon_bronze_3206r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5215_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5215l_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5217_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5218_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5218b_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5218n_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5218r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5218t_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5220_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5220r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5220s_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5220t_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5222_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5315y_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5317_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5318h_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5318n_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5318s_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5318y_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5320_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5320h_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_5320t_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6208u_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6209u_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6210u_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6212u_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6222v_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6226_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6226r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6230_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6230n_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6230r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6230t_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6234_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6238_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6238l_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6238r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6238t_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6240_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6240l_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6240r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6240y_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6242_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6242r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6244_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6246_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6246r_firmware
- intel:xeon_gold_6248_firmware