PT-2018-1086

CVE-2018-8931

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Published

2018-03-12

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Updated

2019-10-03

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CVSS 2.0
9.3
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to insufficient access control for the Secure Processor in AMD Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips. This allows an attacker with administrative privileges and access to the targeted computer to write to the protected area of the processor (VTL-1 memory) by writing to the AMD Secure Processor coprocessor registers.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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