VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2021-36133

high
Published 2021-12-07 · Modified 2026-06-05
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CVSS v3
7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

The OPTEE-OS CSU driver for NXP i.MX SoC devices lacks security access configuration for several models, resulting in TrustZone bypass because the NonSecure World can perform arbitrary memory read/write operations on Secure World memory. This involves a DMA capable peripheral.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
70%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected —
sid Affected —
forky Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nxpi.mx_6-
nxpi.mx_6solox-
nxpi.mx_6ull-
nxpi.mx_6ulz-
nxpi.mx_7ds-
nxpi.mx6sx-

References

CWEs

CWE-732

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.