CVE-2018-8934

CVE-2018-8934 covers a backdoor in the firmware of the Promontory chipset used in AMD Ryzen/Ryzen Pro platforms (aka CHIMERA-FW). The issue stems from a firmware backdoor in Promontory, with documented risk perceptions in multiple sources, and a CVSS3 score indicating CRITICAL impact across confi...

CVE-2018-8936

The CVE-2018-8936 entry concerns AMD processors (EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, Ryzen Mobile) where the Platform Security Processor (PSP) enables privilege escalation. The connected documents corroborate that this is a PSP-based elevation issue affecting multiple Ryzen-family products. Specifics ...