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Change History

CISA-ADP AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA-ADP CWE-120

An issue was discovered in Trusted Firmware-M through 2.1.0. User provided (and controlled) mailbox messages contain a pointer to a list of input arguments (in_vec) and output arguments (out_vec). These list pointers are never validated. Each argument list contains a buffer pointer and a buffer length field. After a PSA call, the length of the output arguments behind the unchecked pointer is updated in mailbox_direct_reply, regardless of the call result. This allows an attacker to write anywhere

MITRE https://trustedfirmware-m.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security/security_advisories/user_pointers_mailbox_vectors_vulnerability.html [No types assigned]

MITRE https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/tf-m/ [No types assigned]