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CVE-2021-42114

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-42114 describes a Rowhammer vulnerability affecting modern PC-DDR4 and LPDDR4X DRAM devices from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, even those with advertised TRR mitigations. Attackers can trigger bit flips using novel, non-uniform Rowhammer access patterns, enabling privilege escalation or compromising cryptographic keys. Rated 8.3 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity and adjacent network access. There is currently no public exploit code, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, with minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:ddr4_sdram_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:samsung:lddr4_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:micron:lddr4_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:micron:ddr4_sdram_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:skhynix:ddr4_sdram_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.0CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0289 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-42114Important

hw: dram: new non-uniform circumvent TRR to induce bit flips via Rowhammer

Nov 15, 2021

References

comsec.ethz.ch / research/dram/blacksmith
ExploitThird Party Advisory
comsec.ethz.ch / wp-content/files/blacksmith_sp22.pdf
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / comsec-group/blacksmith
ExploitThird Party Advisory