PT-2021-9518

CVE-2020-12967

Published

2021-05-13

Updated

2021-05-25

Description by

CVSS 2.0

9.0

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD SEV/SEV-ES feature (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the lack of nested page table protection in the AMD SEV/SEV-ES feature. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution within the guest VM if a malicious administrator has access to compromise the server hypervisor.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Erick Quintanar Salas

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (\'Command Injection\')