Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-46792

Medium

Published: 09 May 2023

Published
09 May 2023
Modified
28 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0042 62.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-46792 is a medium-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability in Amd Ryzen 3100 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) in the BIOS2PSP command may allow an attacker with a malicious BIOS to create a race condition causing the ASP bootloader to perform out-of-bounds SRAM reads upon an S3 resume event potentially leading to a denial of…

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CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

amd
ryzen 5300g firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5300ge firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5500 firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5600 firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5600g firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5600ge firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5600x firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5700g firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5700ge firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
amd
ryzen 5700x firmware
cezannepi-fp6_1.0.0.6
+45 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-367

Timestamps meeting UTC or offset standards help identify TOCTOU issues through precise chronological reconstruction of check/use operations.

References