github - ghsa-h53v-fr53-7vvj

ghsa-h53v-fr53-7vvj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-01-04 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

A BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system.

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  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:30:36Z",
  "published": "2022-01-04T00:00:32Z",
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CVE-2021-38576 (GCVE-0-2021-38576)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-01-03 21:07

Modified

2025-11-03 19:26

Severity ?

CWE

Security Feature Bypass

Summary

A BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system.

References

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https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3499

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	EDK II	Version: edk2-stable202105, edk2-stable202102, edk2-stable202011, edk2-stable202008, edk2-stable202005, edk2-stable202002, edk2-stable201911, edk2-stable201908, edk2-stable201905, edk2-stable201903, edk2-stable201811, edk2-stable201808

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