CVE-2020-12967

HIGH

AMD SEV/SEV-ES - Guest Code Execution by Malicious Hypervisor Admin

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0161
EPSS Percentile 82.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-77
Status published
Products (50)
amd/epyc_7232p
amd/epyc_7251
amd/epyc_7252
amd/epyc_7261
amd/epyc_7262
amd/epyc_7272
amd/epyc_7281
amd/epyc_7282
amd/epyc_72f3
amd/epyc_7301
... and 40 more
Published May 13, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026