# CVE-2021-41289: ASUS P453UJ - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

> Local attackers can corrupt BIOS memory buffers to bypass integrity checks, causing the ASUS P453UJ device to fail to boot.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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:** 15 Nov 2021
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-54xx-r3gg-3rvf

## What is CVE-2021-41289?

CVE-2021-41289 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in ASUS P453UJ BIOS, published on 15 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

ASUS P453UJ contains the Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability. With a general user’s permission, local attackers can modify the BIOS by replacing or filling in the content of the designated Memory DataBuffer, which causing a failure of integrity verification and further resulting in a failure to boot.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-41289?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Asus P453uj Bios.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-41289?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-41289 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-41289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-41289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-41289 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-41289 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in ASUS P453UJ BIOS, published on 15 Nov 2021. 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-2021-41289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ASUS P453UJ BIOS. 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-2021-41289/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41289/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41289
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41289
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-41289

---
From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41289/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.