Vulnerability · Published Feb 4, 2022 · Assigned by AMD

CVE-2020-12966

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in 1st/2nd/3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors from AMD. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

AMD EPYC™ Processors contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Encrypted State (SEV-ES) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). A local authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to leaking guest data by the malicious hypervisor.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
AMD 1st/2nd/3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors unspecified – before undefined

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