# CVE-2021-0060: Privilege escalation in Intel(R) SPS

> An authenticated user with physical access can escalate privileges due to insufficient compartmentalization in Intel SPS firmware.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 5 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f62p-qx9c-xcwr

## What is CVE-2021-0060?

CVE-2021-0060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Backup, published on 9 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Insufficient compartmentalization in HECI subsystem for the Intel(R) SPS before versions SPS_E5_04.01.04.516.0, SPS_E5_04.04.04.033.0, SPS_E5_04.04.03.281.0, SPS_E5_03.01.03.116.0, SPS_E3_05.01.04.309.0, SPS_02.04.00.101.0, SPS_SoC-A_05.00.03.114.0, SPS_SoC-X_04.00.04.326.0, SPS_SoC-X_03.00.03.117.0, IGN_E5_91.00.00.167.0, SPS_PHI_03.01.03.078.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-0060?

It affects 16 products.


Products: Intel 11th Generation Core Series Firmware, Intel Atom C3000 Series Firmware, Intel Atom C610 Series Firmware, Intel Atom P5000 Series Firmware, Intel C240 Series Firmware, Intel C620 Series Firmware, Intel C620a Series Firmware, Intel Celeron 6000 Series Firmware, Intel Pentium Gold Series Firmware, Intel Xeon D-1500 Series Firmware, Intel Xeon D 2000 Series Firmware, Intel Xeon W-1300 Series Firmware, Netapp Cloud Backup, Netapp Hci Compute Node Bios, Netapp Hci Storage Node Bios, Netapp Solidfire Bios.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-0060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-0060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-0060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-0060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-0060 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-0060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Backup, published on 9 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-0060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Netapp Cloud Backup. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0060/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0060/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-0060
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-0060
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-0060

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0060/
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