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high 7.8

CVE-2021-26360 json

An attacker with local access to the system can make unauthorized modifications of the security configuration of the SOC registers.

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-13166

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An attacker with local access to the system can make unauthorized modifications of the security configuration of the SOC registers. This could allow potential corruption of AMD secure processor’s encrypted memory contents which may lead to arbitrary code execution in ASP.

Patch / fix

  • AMD AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series & PRO W6000 Series 22.5.2, 22.10.20, 22.Q2

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red hat product security vex CVE-2021-26360 updated cvss 6.4

hw: amd: Unauthorized modifications of the security configuration of the SOC registers

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • AMD AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series & PRO W6000 Series

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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