CVE-2020-12967 AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization

2021-05-1100:00:00

AMD

www.cve.org

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

40.1%

JSON

The lack of nested page table protection in the AMD SEV/SEV-ES feature could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution within the guest VM if a malicious administrator has access to compromise the server hypervisor.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "SEV/SEV-ES",
    "vendor": "AMD",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "SEV-SNP",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-1004