CVE-2021-0180

HIGH 8.4CVE-2021-0180 · Published 17/11/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-0180 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.4) vulnerability affecting hardware accelerated execution manager (intel).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.26%, higher than 18.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 7.6.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hardware accelerated execution manager intel	`< 7.6.6`	`7.6.6`

Description

Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel(R) HAXM software before version 7.6.6 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable privilege escalation via local access.

References

intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00544.html · Vendor Advisory

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