CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-0188
High (7.8) in intel. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Return of pointer value outside of expected range in the BIOS firmware 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 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- intel:xeon_e3-1220_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1220_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1225_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1225_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1230_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1230_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1235l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1240_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1240_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1240l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1245_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1245_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1260l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1268l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1270_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1270_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1275_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1275_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1280_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1280_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1285_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1501l_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1501m_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1505l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1505l_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1505m_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1505m_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1515m_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1535m_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1535m_v6_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1545m_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1558l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1565l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1575m_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1578l_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1585_v5_firmware
- intel:xeon_e3-1585l_v5_firmware