GHSA-h53v-fr53-7vvj

GHSA-h53v-fr53-7vvj PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published January 4, 2022

A BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

Jan 4, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-h53v-fr53-7vvj
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-h53v-fr53-7vvj

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-h53v-fr53-7vvj/fixes/registry"

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References

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3499 url
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00007.html url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38576 advisory

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