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CVE-2021-38576

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-38576 is a high-severity BIOS bug in tianocore edk2 firmware that leaves the Platform authorization value empty, allowing for permanent TPM bricking or non-permanent system denial-of-service. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to high availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
201808CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk2:201808:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
201811CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk2:201811:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
201903CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk2:201903:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
201905CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk2:201905:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
201908CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tianocore:edk2:201908:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0117 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00007.html
bugzilla.tianocore.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory