CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-0161
Medium (6.7) in intel. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Improper input validation in firmware for Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Wi-Fi in multiple operating systems and Killer(TM) Wi-Fi in Windows 10 and 11 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- intel:amt_ac_8260_firmware
- intel:amt_ac_8265_firmware
- intel:amt_ac_9260_firmware
- intel:amt_ac_9560_firmware
- intel:amt_wi-fi_6_ax200_firmware
- intel:amt_wi-fi_6_ax201_firmware
- intel:amt_wi-fi_6_ax210_firmware
- intel:killer_ac_1550_firmware
- intel:killer_wi-fi_6_ax1650_firmware
- intel:killer_wi-fi_6e_ax1675_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_3165_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_3168_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_8260_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_8265_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_9260_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_9461_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_9462_firmware
- intel:proset_ac_9560_firmware
- intel:proset_wi-fi_6_ax200_firmware
- intel:proset_wi-fi_6_ax201_firmware
- intel:proset_wi-fi_6e_ax210_firmware
- intel:proset_wireless_7265_\(rev_d\)_firmware