CVSS 3.0
9.0 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-8930
The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- amd:epyc_server_firmware
- amd:ryzen_firmware
- amd:ryzen_mobile_firmware
- amd:ryzen_pro_firmware
References
- https://amdflaws.com/
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/03/15/amd-flaws-technical-summary/
- https://community.amd.com/community/amd-corporate/blog/2018/03/21/initial-amd-technical-assessment-of-cts-labs-research
- https://safefirmware.com/amdflaws_whitepaper.pdf
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03841en_us