CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14584

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 03, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW
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Null pointer dereference in Tianocore EDK2 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Edk2Tianocore*2020-10-21 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatedk2-0:20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8*
Edk2Ubuntubionic*
Edk2Ubuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Edk2Ubuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Edk2Ubuntuesm-infra/focal*
Edk2Ubuntufocal*
Edk2Ubuntugroovy*
Edk2Ubuntutrusty*
Edk2Ubuntuupstream*
Edk2Ubuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References