Key management errors in AMD products - CVE-2024-21981
Published: October 2, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU97947
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21981
CWE-ID: CWE-320
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper key usage control in AMD Secure Processor (ASP). A local user with arbitrary code execution privilege in ASP can extract ASP cryptographic keys.
Affected software
1st Gen AMD EPYC Processors
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
How to mitigate CVE-2024-21981
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
According to vendor's statement this vulnerability will not be fixed.