CVE-2022-21198 (GCVE-0-2022-21198)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-11 15:49
Modified
2026-08-11 12:22
Severity ?
7.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • escalation of privilege
Summary
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Intel(R) Processors Version: See references
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