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Unscored CVE-2021-28216 EUVD-2021-14906GHSA-6wgv-vj43-rpr5

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.

Published Aug 5, 2021 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by TianoCore

Description

BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
TianoCore EDK II EDK II Master —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 edk2 2021.11~rc1-1 —
Debian 13 edk2 2021.11~rc1-1 —
Debian 12 edk2 2021.11~rc1-1 —
Debian 11 edk2 2020.11-2+deb11u3 DLA-4207-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS edk2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS edk2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS edk2 No fix yet —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 edk2-ovmf +3 20240813-296.amzn2 ALAS2-2024-2722

Advisories 3

References