CVE-2023-52711

Various Issues Due To Exposed SMI Handler in AmdPspP2CmboxV2. The first issue can be leveraged to bypass the protections that have been put in place by previous UEFI phases to prevent direct access to the SPI flash. The second issue can be used to both leak and corrupt SMM memory thus potentially...

CVE-2022-40261

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges from ring 0 to ring -2, execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode - an environment more privileged than operating system OS and completely isolated from it. Running arbitrary code in SMM additionally bypasses SMM-based SPI...

CVE-2022-40261 SMM memory corruption vulnerability in OverClockSmiHandler SMM driver

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges from ring 0 to ring -2, execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode - an environment more privileged than operating system OS and completely isolated from it. Running arbitrary code in SMM additionally bypasses SMM-based SPI...

New Lenovo UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Laptops

Three high-impact Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI security vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting various Lenovo consumer laptop models, enabling malicious actors to deploy and execute firmware implants on the affected devices. Tracked as CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, and...