CVE-2021-26321 Denial of service in 1st Gen AMD EPYC™

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local authenticated attacker can cause a denial of service in the AMD PSP firmware due to insufficient command validation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2021-26321?

CVE-2021-26321 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, published on 16 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient ID command validation in the SEV Firmware may allow a local authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service of the PSP.

Weakness: CWE-77, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-26321?

It affects 57 products.

Products include Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, Amd Epyc 7251 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7252 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7261 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7262 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7272 Firmware and 51 more.

How do I fix CVE-2021-26321?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-26321 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-26321 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-26321 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f2xj-57vr-m78h.

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