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CVE-2021-41285

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2021-10-04 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Ballistix MOD Utility through 2.0.2.5 is vulnerable to privilege escalation in the MODAPI.sys driver component. The vulnerability is triggered by sending a specific IOCTL request that allows low-privileged users to directly interact with physical memory via the MmMapIoSpace function call (mapping physical memory into a virtual address space). Attackers could exploit this issue to achieve local privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Affected Platforms

Micron Ballistix Memory Overview Display Utility

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References