AVID-2026-R0816

Description

Vulnerability CVE-2021-33073

Details

Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel(R) Distribution of OpenVINOâ„¢ Toolkit before version 2021.4 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Reason for inclusion in AVID: CVE-2021-33073 describes an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, which is a software component used to run AI inference workloads. This impacts AI software stacks and could enable denial of service. It affects a runtime/library commonly used in AI pipelines, thus relevant to the software supply chain for general-purpose AI systems. The report provides explicit CVE coverage and a security advisory reference, establishing a clear security vulnerability with evidence.

References

• NVD entry
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00538.html

Affected or Relevant Artifacts

• Developer: n/a
• Deployer: n/a
• Artifact Details:

Impact

AVID Taxonomy Categorization

• Risk domains: Security
• SEP subcategories: S0100: Software Vulnerability
• Lifecycle stages: L06: Deployment

Other information

• Report Type: Advisory
• Credits:
• Date Reported: 2021-11-17
• Version: 0.3.3
• AVID Entry