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CVE record · CVE-2021-39298

Improper privilege management in AMD 2nd Gen EPYC and others

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0037 · 31st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: AMD) at 16 Feb 2022, 16:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
AMD 2nd Gen EPYC Package name: AGESA
  • affected Various
Other versions: unaffected
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Package name: AGESA
  • affected various
Other versions: unaffected
AMD Ryzen 2000 Series Package name: AGESA
  • affected various
Other versions: unaffected
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Package name: AGESA
  • affected Various
Other versions: unaffected
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Package name: AGESA
  • affected various
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2021-39298
CNA
AMD
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269
Tags
Published
16 Feb 2022
Updated
7 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0037, the 31st percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 16 Feb 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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