Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-28216

HighPublic PoC

Published: 05 August 2021

Published
05 August 2021
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-28216 is a high-severity Assignment of a Fixed Address to a Pointer (CWE-587) vulnerability in Tianocore Edk Ii. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tianocore
edk ii
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References