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CVE-2021-33060: Out-of-bounds write in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of…

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.26% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Out-of-bounds write in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Aug 18, 2022
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 18th percentile
CWE: CWE-787

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

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Vendor	Product	CPE
intel	xeon gold 5315y firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5315y_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5315y	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5315y
intel	xeon gold 5317 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5317_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5317	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5317
intel	xeon gold 5318n firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5318n_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5318n	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5318n
intel	xeon gold 5318s firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5318s_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5318s	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5318s
intel	xeon gold 5318y firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5318y_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5318y	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5318y
intel	xeon gold 5320 firmware	cpe:2.3:o:intel:xeon_gold_5320_firmware
intel	xeon gold 5320	cpe:2.3:h:intel:xeon_gold_5320

and 132 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

intel xeon gold 5315y firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5317 firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5318h firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5318n firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5318s firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5318y firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5320 firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5320h firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 5320t firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6312u firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6314u firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6326 firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6328h firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6328hl firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6330 firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6330h firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6330n firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6334 firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6336y firmwareall versions
intel xeon gold 6338 firmwareall versions

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (intel). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

n/a Intel(R) Processors
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Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Timeline

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope