CVE-2024-21972 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An out of bounds write vulnerability in the AMD Radeon™ user mode driver for DirectX® 11 could allow an attacker with access to a malformed shader to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00039.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-19578	An out of bounds write vulnerability in the AMD Radeon™ user mode driver for DirectX® 11 could allow an attacker with access to a malformed shader to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1848

History

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1848

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: AMD

Published: 2024-04-23T16:36:03.933Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:23:17.557Z

Reserved: 2024-01-03T16:43:30.196Z

Link: CVE-2024-21972

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:23:17.557Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-23T17:15:46.657

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:16:31.363

Link: CVE-2024-21972

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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