#VU97947 Key management errors in AMD products - CVE-2024-21981 

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#VU97947 Key management errors in AMD products - CVE-2024-21981

Published: October 2, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU97947
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21981
CWE-ID: CWE-320
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
1st Gen AMD EPYC Processors
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
Software vendor:
AMD

Description

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.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

According to vendor's statement this vulnerability will not be fixed.


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