CVE-2021-40327
medium
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.9
Description
Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) 1.4.0, when Profile Small is used, has incorrect access control. NSPE can access a secure key (held by the Crypto service) based solely on knowledge of its key ID. For example, there is no authorization check associated with the relationship between a caller and a key owner.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates
- https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/
- https://tf-m-user-guide.trustedfirmware.org/docs/security/security_advisories/profile_small_key_id_encoding_vulnerability.html
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates
- https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/
- https://tf-m-user-guide.trustedfirmware.org/docs/security/security_advisories/profile_small_key_id_encoding_vulnerability.html
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.