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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2021-46792 json

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) in the BIOS2PSP command may allow an attacker with a malicious BIOS to create a race condition causing t…

published 2023-05-09 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33448

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) in the BIOS2PSP command may allow an attacker with a malicious BIOS to create a race condition causing the ASP bootloader to perform out-of-bounds SRAM reads upon an S3 resume event potentially leading to a denial of service.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • AMD Ryzen™ 2000 series Desktop Processors “Raven Ridge” AM4
  • AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop processor with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne” AM4
  • AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Dali”/”Dali” ULP
  • AMD Ryzen™ 2000 Series Mobile Processors “Raven Ridge” FP5
  • AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile processor, 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Picasso”
  • AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Renoir”
  • AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Lucienne”
  • AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne”

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Sources

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