CVE-2020-12951 Race condition in Athlon™ Series
A race condition in AMD ASP firmware allows less privileged code to execute System Management Mode operations, enabling privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-12951?
CVE-2020-12951 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, published on 16 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Race condition in ASP firmware could allow less privileged x86 code to perform ASP SMM (System Management Mode) operations.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12951?
It affects 58 products.
Products include Amd Epyc 7001 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7002 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7003 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, Amd Epyc 7251 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7252 Firmware and 52 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12951?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12951 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-12951 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12951 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware
- CVE-2021-26340 A malicious hypervisor in conjunction with an unprivileged attacker process inside an SEV/SEV-ES guest VM may fail to flush the Translation
- CVE-2021-26398 Memory corruption in 1st Gen EPYC
- CVE-2021-26331 Code injection in 1st Gen AMD EPYC™
- CVE-2021-26335 Code injection in Athlon™ Series
- CVE-2023-20578 Race condition in AMD EPYC™ 7001 Processors
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wf2q-wpcg-q95r.